Tombstones Under The Trees | Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Oregon

About this episode

The episode explores the history and significance of Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

The Grim is opening the gate and entering the oldest cemetery in the Pacific Northwest. Portland was built by people who survived impossible journeys, and Lone Fir Cemetery holds nearly all of them. Established in the 1850s on land where a pioneer father was buried as a condition of sale, Lone Fir became the final resting place for more than 25,000 souls: founders and frontier figures, poets and painters, asylum patients and immigrants, and over three thousand Chinese laborers whose graves we...

People in this episode

Host: Kristin Lopes

Topics covered

• cemeteries
• history
• Portland
• immigration
• pioneers

Keywords

• Lone Fir Cemetery
• Portland
• cemetery history
• pioneers
• Chinese laborers

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Oregon

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