The Preservation Association of Lincoln is hosting a free guided walking tour at Lincoln’s historic Wyuka Cemetery Sunday at 2 pm. Ed Zimmer will lead the tour. He is a retired Historic Preservation Planner who advocated for and championed historic preservation interests and goals for many years while working in the Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning Department.
Zimmer tells KLIN News there are many historical people buried at Wyuka and some notorious ones as well. “Charles Starkweather is buried at Wyuka along with five of his victims.” Starkweather murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958 when he was 19 years old.
Zimmer says there are also a lot of Lincoln mayors, Nebraska governors and Civil War soldiers buried there. Wyuka is a nationally recognized historic cemetery and was established as the State Cemetery by the Nebraska Legislature in 1869.
Sunday’s tour will begin at Rudge Memorial Chapel just inside the cemetery’s main entrance at 36th and O.
(Photo: Wyuka Cemetery )