Established in 1851, Mount Mora is the oldest operating cemetery in St. Joseph. The boom years of the post Civil War period, known as St. Joseph's Golden Age, gave rise to the building of some of the finest tomb architecture. Mausoleum Row, near the main gate to the cemetery, reads like a who's who of St. Joseph's economic and social elite, vying against one another to build magnificent mausoleums. Three Missouri governors are buried at Mount Mora: Robert M. Stewart; Willard P. Hall; Silas Woodson. The Swamp Fox of the Confederacy, M. Jeff Thompson, is buried here.