The Portland, OR urban area government coordinating body, Metro, runs thirteen pioneer cemeteries besides their flagship, Lone Fir. They were originally accumulated over time by Multnomah County, often through state mandate, and turned over to Metro when it was formed at the end of the millennium. Metro’s first reaction was to try and peddle them; but as one can imagine, fourteen disparate, small cemeteries (at thirty acres, Lone Fir is by far the largest) were an impossible sell. No one wanted them.
To Metro’s credit, once it realized it was stuck with them, it turned around and took their care seriously. Lone Fir still gets all the publicity and attention, but the others are all in active use and form an important part of their communities. And truth be known, some people actually prefer some of the small cemeteries to Queen Fir. Multnomah Park is guarded over by a Friends group, and anyone who’s visited Mountain View Corbett knows its spectacular views and comfortable charms.
All these cemeteries can be found on my Flickr site, most of them in the Portland Urban Collection. Mountain View Corbett, though, is in the Columbia River Collection, while Pleasant Home is in Clackamas and the Highlands.
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| Brainard Cemetery |
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| Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery |
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| Brainard Cemetery |
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| Brainard Cemetery |
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| Columbia Cemetery |
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| Columbia Cemetery |
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| Douglass Cemetery |
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| Douglass Cemetery |
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| Gresham/Escobar Cemeteries |
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| Douglass Cemetery |
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| Jones Cemetery |
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| Mountain View Corbett Cemetery |
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| Mountain View Stark Cemetery |
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| Mountain View Corbett Cemetery |
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| Mountain View Corbett Cemetery |
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| Multnomah Park Cemetery |
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| Multnomah Park Cemetery |
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| Multnomah Park Cemetery |
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| View from Pleasant Home Cemetery |
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| White Birch Cemetery |
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| Powell Grove Cemetery |
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