Residents of the Velehrad community, most of them immigrants from Moravia, created this cemetery to serve their burial needs. Filip Bucek, a Czech resident of the community, conceived the idea of a national cemetery but died in 1877 before it was established. Family tradition holds that he was buried in Praha and later reinterred here. The earliest known burial here is his wife, Johana Bucek, in 1878. Those buried here include founders and members of the SPJST, a Czech fraternal benefit society established in 1897, including its first vice president, Ferdinand Breska. A local SPJST lodge stood near the burial ground, and members conducted funeral services for many buried here. The cemetery declined after World War II as many Velehrad residents moved away, and it remains a reminder of the Czech Moravian community established here more than 100 years ago. The SPJST continues to care for the graveyard.