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    Showmen's Rest - Wikipedia

    Hugo is a winter circus home which calls itself Circus City, USA. In Miami, Florida, the largest Showmen's Rest is at Southern Memorial Park where large elephant and lion statues flank hundreds of markers commemorating circus greats and not-so-greats. See more

    Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America. The first performers and show workers that were buried there are in … See more

    Following the wreck of June 22, 1918, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus had to cancel only two performances: the one in Hammond, Indiana … See more

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    Location used in an episode of NBC's Chicago Fire (Ep. Dead of Winter, 2021). A grave-keeper's arm is pinned under a fallen gravestone. See more

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  2. Showmen's Rest: The Clown Graveyard in Chicago

    An elephant statue marks Showmen’s Rest, a mass grave of clowns and other circus performers. The lowered trunk symbolizes mourning. In Forest Park, Illinois, the Woodlawn Cemetery contains a large plot marked by elephant …

  3. Under God’s Big Top: Photos from the Circus Cemetery in Hugo, …

  4. End of an era for Ringling Brothers circus elephants

    May 2, 2016 · Eleven Asian elephants, performed their last head stands and took their final bows for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, May 1, 2016, ending a 200-year spectacle that has...

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  9. The Death of One of the Oldest Shows on Earth

    May 17, 2017 · The circus as it’s known today can be traced to 1768, when trick rider Philip Astley discovered that when his horse galloped in a circle, the centrifugal and centripetal forces allowed him to...

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