The cemetery is located on the eastern slope of Mount Pisgah, overlooking Cripple Creek to the east. In 1890, gold was found in the Cripple Creek region, and soon the district’s population swelled to more than 30,000.
Land for this 40-acre public cemetery was donated in 1895, by Horace W. Bennett and Julius A. Myers of Denver to the Mount Pisgah Cemetery Association. It’s said they considered the hilly tract unsuitable for pasture or residential use and thus “unsalable”. The earliest marked burial is that of James Gozad, who died May 11, 1892.