[HistoricCemeteries] Marshfield Cemetery listed on the National Register

[Kuri Gill]

The Marshfield I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Coos Bay is among Oregon’s latest
entries in the National Register of Historic Places.
 
The Marshfield I.O.O.F. Cemetery, which is located on a hillside
overlooking the town of Coos Bay in southeast Oregon, was adopted by the
I.O.O.F. Sunset Lodge No. 51 as the community burying ground for the
citizens of Marshfield, North Bend, and the former town of Empire in
1888.  The City of Coos Bay took over the cemetery in 1945, at which
time it fell out of active use but became a community asset as an open
space.  Today the cemetery additionally serves as a reminder of the
importance of the Coos Bay region in the late-nineteenth and
early-twentieth centuries, when it was a flourishing community of
individuals from around the world, connected internationally by a
complex maritime network.  The Marshfield I.O.O.F Cemetery is notable as
the final resting place for people from twenty-seven countries,
representing all socio-economic classes, who collectively succeeded in
making Coos Bay the principal port between San Francisco, California and
Portland, Oregon, reinforcing the city’s maritime and cultural ties
worldwide.  
 
Oregon’s State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation recommended
the cemetery’s nomination in their February 2012 meeting.  It is one of
twenty-two buildings in Coos Bay and fifty-two historic properties and
archaeological sites in Coos County that are now listed in the National
Register, which is maintained by the National Park Service under the
authority of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
 
More information about the National Register and recent Oregon lists is
online at www.oregonheritage.org (click on “National Register” at left
of page).
 
Diana
 
Diana J. Painter, PhD
Architectural historian
National Register program
Oregon SHPO
725 Summer Street NE, Suite C
Salem, Oregon  97301
Ph:  503-986-0668
Fax:  503-986-0793
 
Visit our website:
www.oregonheritage.org
 
 
Kuri Gill
Oregon Heritage
725 Summer St. NE, Suite C
Salem, OR 97301-1266
(503) 986-0685
(503) 986-0793 (fax)
kuri.gill at state.or.us
www.oregonheritage.org
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