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Grantsville, Utah
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Iosepa was founded in 1889 for Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been mistreated in Salt Lake City, and about 230 people lived here before a temple opened in Hawaii in 1919 and most returned home. Only the cemetery on the National Register remains, with fewer than ninety graves, and descendants gather every Memorial Day weekend for a luau and to clean the graves. It is a place of remembrance and should be visited quietly.
The cemetery has a pavilion and restrooms; Memorial Day weekend brings a large gathering.
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