Prospect Cemetery Prairie is a 5 acre cemetery with a remnant mesic black soil prairie of the Grand Prairie  Section of the Grand Prairie Natural Division.  Created in 1859, Prospect Cemetery was the first cemetery in the county.  Burials continued until 1914 and possibly later, but no records have been located.  The preserve has a natural appearance in the southern third of the site, where the high quality prairie reflects pre-settlement conditions.  Some 80 species of native herbaceous forbs and grasses have been identified of which 21 occur nowhere else in the county.   A few of these unusual plants are yellow star-grass, green milkweed, cream wild indigo, prairie gentian and prairie glazingstar.  Common occurring species include big bluestem, Indian grass, little bluestm, and prairie dropseed.