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Rosehill Cemetery

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First burial site for HIV/AIDS victims

The first burial site in the city for people lost to HIV/AIDS in the early- to mid-1980s. The cemetery is also the burial place of Frances E. Willard, the 19th-century leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and a lesbian.



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