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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Seattle)

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery
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Seattle, Washington
CountryUnited States

Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington.[1][2] It opened in 1879.[3]

The cemetery contains the remains of the unknown dead of the 1906 SS Valencia disaster, as well as many early Seattle pioneers, and Filipino-American author and activist Carlos Bulosan. A memorial to the dead of the 1916 Everett Massacre is located in the northeast section of the cemetery.[4] During World War II, the cemetery served as a site for anti-aircraft defenses.[5]

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  1. ^ "Mount Pleasant Cemetery – 700 W Raye St". Queen Anne Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  2. ^ "Mount Pleasant Cemetery". www.historylink.org. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  3. ^ "A Seattle Graveyard, Full of Tragic Tales". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  4. ^ Queen Anne Historical Society, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Archived December 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Wilma, David. Seattle Neighborhoods: Queen Anne Hill -- Thumbnail History. HistoryLink. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
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