In 1873, Knapp, Stout & Company provided fifty-two acres for Evergreen Cemetery as a proper burial site and hired landscape architects William Merchant Richardson French and Horace Shaler Cleveland to design it. French's plan reflected the Rural Romantic style by following the land's natural contours and incorporating native trees and shrubs. In 1904, the company transferred ownership to lot owners, who formed the Cemetery Association. Evergreen became an island when planners raised Lake Menomin for a new dam in 1955, and the city built a causeway the next year. The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its single grave section contains 1,111 graves, many unmarked and others marked by monuments in poor condition. Most burials occurred before 1900, and burial records reveal much about early life in Menomonie, including the area's predominant Norwegian and German heritage. The records list common illnesses and causes of death from the 1870s to the 1900s; about one-third of those buried there died as children, reflecting high infant mortality and childhood disease rates. They also record suicides, murders, mysterious deaths, and many deaths from epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, diphtheria, and influenza, while only a few people died of old age.