Brookside Cemetery (Dayton, Oregon)

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Brookside Cemetery
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The cemetery in 2012
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Location in Dayton, Oregon
Coordinates 45°13′06″N123°04′24″W / 45.2184456°N 123.0733796°W / 45.2184456; -123.0733796
MPS Brookside Cemetery
NRHP reference No. 87000332

Brookside Cemetery is an historic 3.41-acre cemetery in Dayton, Oregon, United States. Joel Palmer set aside land for the cemetery in the 1850s; he deeded the site to the Dayton School District in 1874. 479 people are known to have been buried there between July 1864 and June 1987; there are presently no vacant plots. [1] The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]

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  1. ↑ "Brookside Cemetery". City of Dayton, Oregon. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Dayton Historic Resource Inventory: Brookside Cemetery". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
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