150 years of memory, erasure, and rediscovery.
Discover the full story in Lost & Forgotten: A True History of Snohomish's First Cemetery.
1965, Snohomish Tribune.
January 9, 1902, Monroe Monitor.
Advertisements from local Snohomish undertakers, 1911-1932.
A horse-drawn hearse from 1888. This example is in a museum in Port Townsend, WA.
July 3, 1947, Tribune.
October 23, 1947, WA State DOT memo.
April 22, 1948, Tribune.
Evidence submitted to the court by Ruth Moore.
May 6, 1965, Tribune.
June 10, 1965, Tribune.
Fall 1965, Tribune.
November 9, 1988, Tribune.
Undated, Herald.
Surveying headstones bulldozed for senior center construction, 1997. | Photos from March 14, 1998 testing for human remains.
The cemetery viewed from Cypress Avenue, looking southeast in 1999.
October 13, 1998, Herald.
Wayne Moore and Carolynn Crawford with photos of their Low family ancestors.
The abandoned Pioneer Village in 2009, photo by Joe Mabel.
The cemetery's official theme song, lyrics composed in 1960 by Alvin Petterson. (Set to music with the magic of AI.)
Discover the full story in Lost & Forgotten: A True History of Snohomish's First Cemetery.
Other area cemeteries:
Woodlawn (1891) Grand Army of the Republic (1898) Marshland Cemetery (1899)
Machias Cemetery (1900) Zion Lutheran Cemetery (1902) Mt. Carmel Catholic Cemetery (1906)