Comments on: Eagle Cliff Cemetery and Miles Mausoleum

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:31:57 +0000

Thanks for this post! I received the book Weird Illinois as a Christmas gift, which featured an entry about this place. I wanted to see what I could find online about it. Your pictures are great. Too bad about all of the disrespect being shown to the place. Hopefully, there will be a way to discourage vandalism going forward.

By: Max Gersh

Max Gersh — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:38:32 +0000

Kivrin, I agree with you (about the cemetery and about the previous commenter) 100%.

By: Kivrin

Kivrin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:34:33 +0000

Thank you for posting this. I love old cemeteries. I live in St. Louis but we have property in Hecker Illinois and I finally went here myself for the first time in Sep 2011 with my parents and toddler. There was a LOT of graffiti at the time. A gorgeous old place rich in history. Too bad we can’t set up traps where when people try to graffiti the mausoleum they get sprayed with paint themselves.

The last poster to this blog is pathetic. Good for you, that dead animal smell when we were there must have been leftover from one of your amorous trysts.

By: John bigcok.

John bigcok. — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:28:47 +0000

I be fuck’n in this cemetary

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:26:28 +0000

I stop by Miles quite often on my motorcycle during nice weather to enjoy the grounds and the view.
I saw a bobcat there one evening this summer - very memorable.
You’ll be happy to know that the outside of the mausoleum has been cleaned up a good bit lately (graffiti faded away mostly with chemicals) and video surveillance installed to monitor it.
I would also like to thank the volunteers for their continuing work on the site.
There is one gentleman in particular (I met him once but can’t recall his name) who mows using his own gas, finds buried gravestones using divining rods, and was working by himself on the graffiti removal - bravo, sir.