Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Seattle)

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Seattle)
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Seattle, Washington
CountryUnited States

Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] [2] It opened in 1879. [3]

The cemetery contains the remains of the unknown dead of the 1906 SS Valencia disaster, as well as many early Seattle pioneers, and Filipino-American author and activist Carlos Bulosan. A memorial to the dead of the 1916 Everett Massacre is located in the northeast section of the cemetery. [4] During World War II, the cemetery served as a site for anti-aircraft defenses. [5]

References

  1. "Mount Pleasant Cemetery – 700 W Raye St". Queen Anne Historical Society. Retrieved September 9, 2024.
  2. "Mount Pleasant Cemetery". www.historylink.org. Retrieved September 9, 2024.
  3. "A Seattle Graveyard, Full of Tragic Tales". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved September 9, 2024.
  4. Queen Anne Historical Society, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Archived December 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Wilma, David. Seattle Neighborhoods: Queen Anne Hill -- Thumbnail History. HistoryLink. Retrieved March 5, 2011.