The first section of the twenty-acre Omro Cemetery was donated by Milo Bushnell in 1846. In 1851, the Omro Cemetery Association was formed, and it superintended the cemetery’s growth in the years that followed. In the early 1880s, an effort began to transfer the remains of Civil War veterans and their wives from other parts of the Town of Omro to this cemetery. The more than 250 known veterans of that conflict now buried here constitute one of the largest, if not the largest, concentrations of Civil War dead in Wisconsin. The exceptionally well maintained and documented burial group visible today reflects the unstinting care provided by the Cemetery Association. In 1990, the Association requested that the City of Omro take over the now considerable task of maintaining the cemetery, which today has more than 9,500 grave sites.