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A brief history of the Lone Tree Cemetery: The first recorded burials in Telluride’s Lone Tree Cemetery were in the mid-late 1800’s, during Telluride’s mining boom era, when avalanches, flu epidemics, mining accidents and labor strikes took many lives. Families would usually bury their loved ones by themselves, and care for their graves. There was no Cemetery District in place until 1956, when a female civic group named the Commonweal Girls...