Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
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Portland, Oregon, 97219 USACoordinates: 45.46060, -122.68100 - Cemetery ID:
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This cemetery is adjacent to but not part of Greenwood Hill Cemetery.
On a peaceful hillside in the woods of Southwest Portland, this 3-acre cemetery takes visitors back to the Victorian era. Graves are laid out in a formal, semi-circular pattern in a patchwork of open lawn and scattered trees.
The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization of Civil War veterans. It was founded in 1866 in Decatur, Illinois and dissolved in 1956 when its last member died. Peak membership was 490,000 in 1890.
Fourteen veterans formed the Grand Army Cemetery Association and purchased the Portland land in 1882. The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War took over the cemetery's management.
Salmon Brown, son of abolitionist John Brown, was buried here in 1919. As a young man in 1856, Salmon Brown took part in an event that foreshadowed the Civil War: the Pottawatomie Massacre of five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas. Brown moved west after the war.
Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery is adjacent to Greenwood Hills and Riverview cemeteries and close to Beth Israel and Ahavai Sholom cemeteries.
The cemetery was acquired by Multnomah County, Oregon in 1971.
This cemetery is adjacent to but not part of Greenwood Hill Cemetery.
On a peaceful hillside in the woods of Southwest Portland, this 3-acre cemetery takes visitors back to the Victorian era. Graves are laid out in a formal, semi-circular pattern in a patchwork of open lawn and scattered trees.
The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization of Civil War veterans. It was founded in 1866 in Decatur, Illinois and dissolved in 1956 when its last member died. Peak membership was 490,000 in 1890.
Fourteen veterans formed the Grand Army Cemetery Association and purchased the Portland land in 1882. The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War took over the cemetery's management.
Salmon Brown, son of abolitionist John Brown, was buried here in 1919. As a young man in 1856, Salmon Brown took part in an event that foreshadowed the Civil War: the Pottawatomie Massacre of five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas. Brown moved west after the war.
Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery is adjacent to Greenwood Hills and Riverview cemeteries and close to Beth Israel and Ahavai Sholom cemeteries.
The cemetery was acquired by Multnomah County, Oregon in 1971.
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Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
- Total memorials8k+
- Percent photographed51%
- Percent with GPS9%
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed83%
- Percent with GPS27%
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed75%
- Percent with GPS15%
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
- Total memorials60k+
- Percent photographed84%
- Percent with GPS2%
- Added: 29 Oct 2003
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1972711
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