<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3SOZxp_0pbJTwxj00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3SOZxp_0pbJTwxj00" width="980" height="653" ><figcaption>Rik Mikals</figcaption></figure><h2>Washington State's Oldest Cemetery Resides in an Unexpected Location</h2><p>One of the best lessons I ever learned from my foster mom Pearl was to respect a gravesite.</p><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3lZf7I_0pbJTwxj00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3lZf7I_0pbJTwxj00" width="1600" height="1067" ><figcaption>canva</figcaption></figure><h2>Unveiling the Historical Charm: Discover Washington State's Oldest Cemetery!</h2><p>I think I was eight or so when I carelessly walked over the top of a grave and my mom taught me to walk along the sides of the grave and don't stand where the head of the person might be resting.</p><p>I know it's a little old-fashioned but it was a great lesson that I still adhere to today.</p><p>I thought I'd do a little digging out of curiosity and discover where the oldest cemetery in Washington is located and I was actually a little surprised.</p><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1BVHNm_0pbJTwxj00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1BVHNm_0pbJTwxj00" width="1250" height="833" ><figcaption>canva</figcaption></figure><p>My first inclination of <a href="https://newstalk870.am/tags/washington%20state">Washington's</a> first cemetery would've been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla_Walla,_Washington">Walla Walla</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla_Walla,_Washington">Whitman Mission</a> or along the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail">Oregon Trail</a> but surprisingly the oldest cemetery is along the coast of Washington.</p><p>Thanks to <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/oldest-cemetery-in-every-state/">Readers Digest,</a> the oldest cemetery in <a href="https://newstalk870.am/tags/washington%20state">Washington State</a> is located in Vancouver Washington.</p><p><a href="https://www.imortuary.com/funeral-homes/washington/vancouver/park-hill-cemetery/#:~:text=The%20cemetery%20was%20built%20in%201863%2C%20designed%20by,Washington%2C%20D.C.%2C%20and%20the%20grounds%20at%20Stanford%20University.">Park Hill Cemetery</a> is still open and operating today but the first bodies were buried there starting in <b>1825.</b> </p><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2qwgNb_0pbJTwxj00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2qwgNb_0pbJTwxj00" width="723" height="483" ><figcaption>Getty Images/Zoonar RF</figcaption></figure><p>According to the <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/oldest-cemetery-in-every-state/">article</a>, even some of the bodies that had been moved to the cemetery were from the earlier <b>1800s</b> so some of the deceased are even older than the cemetery.</p><p>Park Hill was established nearly a decade after Oregon was settled.</p><p>As you can see, the <a href="https://www.imortuary.com/funeral-homes/washington/vancouver/park-hill-cemetery/#:~:text=The%20cemetery%20was%20built%20in%201863%2C%20designed%20by,Washington%2C%20D.C.%2C%20and%20the%20grounds%20at%20Stanford%20University.">Park Hill Cemetery</a> is functioning today and serves a historic purpose in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cemeteries_in_Washington_(state)">Washington State.</a></p><h2>8 of the Most Affordable Places To Live in Washington State</h2><p>Apartment and house hunting? These 8 places in Washington State might be the way to go</p></div></body>

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Washington State's Oldest Cemetery Resides in an Unexpected Location. One of the best lessons I ever learned from my foster mom Pearl was to respect a gravesite. Unveiling the Historical Charm: Discover Washington State's Oldest Cemetery!. I think I was eight or so when I carelessly walked over the top...