Brookside Cemetery (Dayton, Oregon)

Last updated
Brookside Cemetery
Brookside Cemetery.JPG
The cemetery in 2012
Dayton OR - OpenStreetMap.png
Red pog.svg
Location in Dayton, Oregon
Coordinates 45°13′06″N123°04′24″W / 45.2184456°N 123.0733796°W / 45.2184456; -123.0733796 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]

Contents

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francis Fletcher</span>

Francis Fletcher was a prominent pioneer of the U.S. state of Oregon and a member of the Peoria Party.

Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba holds more than 6500 servicemen and women, includes 470 war graves. The Stone of Remembrance, which was unveiled in 1960 by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission honours the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the Commonwealth who served in both wars and who are buried in Canada.

References

  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.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.