City of Mesa Cemetery

Among those who are interred in the cemetery are early pioneers, mayors, businessman, criminals and veterans of the United States Armed Forces.

In 1891, the citizens of Mesa decided to purchase land along Center Street north of Brown Road to officially establish acuity cemetery after a smallpox epidemic that claimed the lives of 44 residents.

The cemetery is operated by the City of Mesa Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities Department.

The infant grave sites are located within the North View and Heritage Garden sections.

:[2] The cemetery has a special section in the "Historical Area" where the unknowns who perished during the Great Depression era are buried.

This is a prehistoric canal built by the Hohokam in Mesa.
This ancient Hohokam canal in Mesa was cleaned out by the Mormon pioneers in 1875.
The marker of the buried unknown of the Great Depression era.
Waylon Jennings
Zora B. Folley Jr.
Memorial dedicated to the unknown who were buried there during the Great Depression era.