Brookside Cemetery (Dayton, Oregon)

The cemetery in 2012
Brookside Cemetery
Location in Dayton, Oregon

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]

See also

References

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

Coordinates: 45°13′07″N 123°04′24″W / 45.2185°N 123.0733°W / 45.2185; -123.0733

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