Brookside Cemetery (Dayton, Oregon) Explained

Brookside Cemetery
Coordinates:	45.2184°N -123.0734°W
Refnum:	87000332

Brookside Cemetery is an historic 3.41-acre cemetery in Dayton, Oregon, United States. Joel Palmer set aside land for the cemetery in the 1850s; he deeded the site to the Dayton School District in 1874. 479 people are known to have been buried there between July 1864 and June 1987; there are presently no vacant plots.^[1] The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[2]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Yamhill County, Oregon

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brookside Cemetery. City of Dayton, Oregon. August 6, 2015.
2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=87000332}} Dayton Historic Resource Inventory: Brookside Cemetery]. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. August 6, 2015.