Traditionally known as the Cuming City Cemetery, this eleven-acre tract was set aside in 1976 primarily as a preserve for native vegetation. Never plowed, the prairie looks much as it did to the Indians and to the first white men who settled Nebraska in the 1850's, and grasses such as big and little bluestem, Indian Grass, and side-oats grama still grow here. Now owned by Dana College, the site was acquired with the assistance of The Nature Conservancy and the Cuming City Cemetery Association. Part of the plot is reserved as a burial ground for descendants of Lewis M. Kline, a pioneer newspaperman who helped found Cuming City in 1855. By 1857 the town had 53 homes, 3 stores, and 3 hotels, but it disappeared in the 1870's when most of its citizens moved to Blair on the new railroad. The old town's main north-south street is now U.S. Highway 73, one and one-quarter miles southeast of here. The Kline family, whose first burial here was in 1857, donated the acreage to Cuming City for a cemetery, and many of those buried here were later removed to Blair Cemetery, where maintenance is provided.