Mount Pleasant Cemetery | |
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Location | Seattle, Washington |
Country | United 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]