DIAMOND SPRINGS CEMETERY
Cemetery — Diamond Springs, Kansas
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Cemetery documented in historical or public cultural sources.

Diamond Springs Cemetery is a cemetery in Diamond Springs, Kansas. Cemetery documented in historical or public cultural sources. It sits in the archive under ghost-town cemeteries. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

Diamond Springs is the named — the 'Diamond of the Plains' that's Sibley's phrase, the 'elm carved' that's the marking's form. The 'Santa Fe stop' is the watered — the 'stone hotel' that's the rest's form, the 'corral' that's the livestock's hold. The 'Quantrill's men' is the burned — the 'Yeager' that's the raider's name, the 'killed Howell' that's the '63's toll.
The 'Jornada del Muerto' is the feared — the 'Journey of the Dead' that's the trail's name, the 'bones' that's the road's litter. The 'two towns' is the doubled — the 'three miles south' that's the second's site, the 'same fate' that's the shared end. Diamond Springs is the kept — the 'cemetery' that's the town's keeper, the 'Flint Hills' that's the grave's view.
The file keeps Diamond Springs: the named spring, the watered stop, the burned town, and the kept cemetery.
Diamond Springs is the archive's Kansas file — the diamond that lost its shine.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Diamond Springs is the archive's Kansas file — the trail stop the raiders chose instead.
A cemetery keeps its stones — the file's suggestion being that the site's hold is the doubled: the 'two towns' that's the settlement's pattern, the 'Yeager' that's the destruction's name, and the 'Flint Hills' that's the dead's view.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Graves from the 1870s remain near sparse ruins of a former Santa Fe Trail settlement. A cemetery in Diamond Springs, Kansas with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand on. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. 'Diamond Springs Cemetary' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Diamond Springs Cemetary — Emporia Convention and Visitors Bureau
  https://visitemporia.com/place/diamond-springs-cemetary/

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