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Perched on a bluff overlooking the Pilchuck River, a sacred burial ground holds a forgotten past.

To Coast Salish families, and later American settlers, it was a place of reverence and rest. In 1876, it became Snohomish County’s first cemetery.

Within a few generations, the cemetery was abandoned, its records lost and graves forgotten. Soon, the burial ground had been bulldozed and built over. Local memory held faint traces of what had been. More than a century later, a descendant came looking for ancestors—and found instead a parking lot. Buried beneath was evidence of a past long denied.

This is a story of what the city forgot. 🪦

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Snohomish Cemetery Lost & Forgotten