Salem Pioneer Cemetery (Salem, Oregon)

Title: Salem Pioneer Cemetery (Salem, Oregon)
LC Subject: Architecture, American Architecture--United States
Alternative: Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery (Salem, Oregon)
Photographer: Potter, Elisabeth Walton, 1939-
Description: National Register (Listed, 2013)
View: exterior: central avenue and grounds from west boundary; looking east, April 2012
Provenance: Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Work Type: built works complexes (buildings and sites) cemeteries roads
Location: Salem >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States
View Date: 1900/2000
Identifier: OR_MarionCounty_SalemPioneerCemetery_0002
Rights: In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Rights Holder: Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
Source: Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/SHPO/
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Set: Building Oregon
Primary Set: Building Oregon
Institution: University of Oregon
Note: The cemetery, established in 1854 by Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is among the very oldest fraternal society burial grounds in Oregon. Located on South Commercial Street, the historical alignment of the territorial road, the cemetery rises upslope toward the west, to a point overlooking the Willamette Valley to the east. By 1890 the cemetery had been enlarged to its current size of 17.05 acres, representing the city’s only example of a cemetery in the Rural Cemetery tradition. It is known as the final resting place of Samuel R. Thurston, Oregon’s first delegate to the Congress of the United States, and as the burial ground of many other significant figures in early Oregon government and the founding of the capital city’s educational, social and commercial institutions. The Salem Pioneer Cemetery Association, organized in 1949, changed the cemetery’s name before disbanding in 1954. Today the cemetery is under the on-going stewardship of the City of Salem and the Friends of Pioneer Cemetery. It remains an active burial ground for the descendants of original plot owners This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.