Orchard Mesa Cemetery, Grand Junction, Colorado Bannister Cemetery 1893 2620 Legacy Way Grand Junction Mesa Colorado USA http://www.historic7thstreet.org/remembering/pdfs5/omcem.pdf Historic preservation website for the Orchard Mesa Cemetery. http://www.gjcity.org/residents/parks-recreation/city-cemeteries/ City of Grand Junction website for the Orchard Mesa Cemetery It was a public cemetery founded sometime between 1896 and 1904 by a man named Bannister, who also ran a furniture store/undertaker business. The cemetery was known first as the Bannister Cemetery. The Orchard Mesa Cemetery later incorporated private cemeteries run by the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Catholics. yes yes