Dec 2000, visit to Garden Prairie. Small file size pics with an early digital. Pioneer Thompson related farm map in relation to Grarden Prairie. iowaz@hotmail.com

A photo survey of Garden Prairie Cem, SW corner of section 34, Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. Starting in the SE corner of the cemetery as row one, each row was walked S to N, sequencing pics of ...more

plots and markers, with some file labeled. iowaz@swbell.net

Photo sequence of the plots and markers in Garden Prairie Cem, Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa, taken during the summer of 2003. The cemetery was walked starting from the NE corner, going south down ...more

the first row, then back north down the second, etc, until the west end of the cem. was reached. I did not have chalk on this trip, so numerous markers cannot be read, however the markers can be matched with the 2006 sequence which was chalked. Some of the 2006 photos are blurry as it was quite cold and windy so errors were made on holding time. iowaz@swbell.net

Sequential pans around the Garden Prairie Cemetery and Church area, a cold/windy/cloudy late afternoon, Dec 26, 2006. The file name in the first pic of sequence is labeled. iowaz@swbell.net

Summer pans of the Garden Prairie Cem area, Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. iowaz@swbell.net

Exterior views of Garden Prairie Church in the summer of 2003, Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. iowaz@swbell.net

Entry into and interior of the Garden Prairie Church, Summer of 2003, Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. iowaz@swbell.net

Exterior views and pans around Garden Prairie Church, late evening, Dec 2006. iowaz@swbell.net

Views of the area habitat about Garden Prairie Cem, Smithfield Twp, Fayette Co, Iowa. Originally tall to wet grass prairie drained by numerous prairie streams with adjacent stream trees/shrubs and ...more

sloughs. Today basically totally void of any natural habitat. Tiled out with sloughs and woody plants removed, fench rows removed not plowed road to road. Where a section of land supported 4-12 families, now a section has 0-3 farming families. iowaz@swbell.net

Views of the agricultural habitat around Garden Prairie Cem/Church in the Summer of 2003. iowaz@swbell.net

Maps of the Garden Prairie Cem area in Smithfield and Scott Twp's, of Fayette Co, Iowa. To include 1875 Atlas, 1879 plat, 1898 plat.