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“The graveyard containing the remains of the city’s pioneers, great and small, presented the highway department with two alternatives... Go Around or Go Through... The bureaucratic mind which believes the shortest distance between two points is a straight line chose the second course. Bisected and shorn of its loveliness and the bones of half its residents, the cemetery was neglected and eventually forgotten.”
“The graveyard containing the remains of the city’s pioneers, great and small, presented the highway department with two alternatives... Go Around or Go Through... The bureaucratic mind which believes the shortest distance between two points is a straight line chose the second course. Bisected and shorn of its loveliness and the bones of half its residents, the cemetery was neglected and eventually forgotten.”
-Bill Bates, 1960
-Bill Bates, 1960
The Snohomish Cemetery plat, 1885.
Snohomish City map, 1910. The cemetery is on the northeastern edge.
Snohomish aerial view, 1938. The cemetery is on the northeastern edge.
Department of Transportation plans, 1947. The road cuts through the middle of the cemetery then crosses the Pilchuck River.
Snohomish aerial, 1991. Second Street cuts through the middle of the cemetery and buildings have been placed to either side.
Site plans for the property's development, 1998.
The cemetery, today.
Discover the full story of the Snohomish Cemetery, plus more maps, in Lost & Forgotten.
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