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For Members: Lincoln Park Lost Cemetery Walk

Group of hikers being guided by a Park Ranger
Hiking led by Park Ranger

Ryan Curran White/Parks Conservancy

Few people realize that today’s Lincoln Park Golf Course was once “City Cemetery,” the final resting place for tens of thousands of people, including a sprawling paupers’ graveyard called Potter’s Field. Join historian and retired ranger John Martini on this twilight exploration of the former cemetery, including visits to forgotten funerary monuments along the golf course fairways.

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