Mount Moriah Cemetery

Deadwood buried its first dead in the Ingleside graveyard part way up the hill, and when the town wanted that ground for houses most of the bodies were dug up and carried higher, to Mount Moriah. Wild Bill Hickok, shot at a card table in August 1876, was moved up in 1879, and his grave has carried a run of monuments since, the early ones chipped away by souvenir hunters. A bronze bust marks it now.

Calamity Jane died in 1903 and was buried beside him, by her wish if not by his, and Potato Creek Johnny, the prospector credited with one of the largest nuggets ever taken from the Black Hills, lies close by. Seth Bullock, Deadwood's first sheriff, chose a plot far up the slope above the rest, where he could look across at the stone tower he and the Society of Black Hills Pioneers raised on Mount Roosevelt in 1919 for his friend Theodore Roosevelt.

The rest of the hill is the town as it was. There is a Jewish section, and Section Six, where about thirty-three Chinese residents were buried in the fifty years after 1878; in 1908 the Chinese community received permission to build a burner and altar there for offerings. A children's section holds the dead of the typhus, cholera and smallpox outbreaks. By old custom the flag over the cemetery flies day and night.