Linwood Cemetery, Glenwood Springs' oldest existing cemetery, has also been known as Pioneer, Hill, Glenwood, and Doc Holiday's, and the name Linwood has been used since its inception in 1886, though its significance is unknown. When the first white settlers made Glenwood Springs their home, they used the area of 12th Street and Palmer Avenue near the trailhead as the city's first burial ground. The hilltop land that later became Linwood Cemetery was homesteaded in 1885, and in August 1886 the Glenwood Cemetery Association was formed and the cemetery was developed. In November 1887, the local newspaper, The Ute Chief, advertised lots for sale, noting that it was the only organized cemetery in the county and that funds from lot sales after expenses would improve the grounds. Local undertaker Louis Schwarz was named trustee of the cemetery association and handled day-to-day operations. Because local doctors raised health concerns about bodies buried in the natural run-off zone at what is now the 12th Street ditch, town leaders decided in November 1887 to move bodies from the original burial ground to the new cemetery on the hill, with families paying to move their own relatives and the city covering the rest; Mr. Hewson, employed as the town scavenger, was directed by the town council to reinter them. One day after the council ordered these reburials, Glenwood's most infamous resident, John H. "Doc" Holiday, died and was buried in Linwood Cemetery. In 1889, Schwarz bought the cemetery property from his colleagues and managed it until his death in 1917, after which it passed to his brother Jacob, who had succeeded him as undertaker. In 1939, the City of Glenwood Springs acquired the cemetery in a land deal that provided property for new city water tanks, and the city still owns the cemetery property.