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At the western edge of Ottawa along Boyce Memorial Drive overlooking the Illinois River is the scenic Ottawa
Avenue
Cemetery. Among the many leading Ottawa citizens buried here is W.D. Boyce.
This Chicago publisher built a home in Ottawa in 1902. He gained fame in
1910 when he founded the Boy Scouts of America. A memorial statue erected
near his gravesite in 1941 is an annual pilgrimage site for boy scouts.
