<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I forgot to list Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery in Hillsboro. It has few important families who help settle western Washington County. <BR><BR>
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<B>From: </B>"Kuri Gill" <kuri.gill@state.or.us><BR><B>To: </B>"Historic Cemeteries Listserv" <historiccemeteries@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><BR><B>Sent: </B>Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:41:01 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[HistoricCemeteries] Marshfield Cemetery listed on the National Register<BR><BR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Oregon</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">’s State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation recommended the cemetery’s nomination in their February 2012 meeting. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 348.0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">More information about the National Register and recent Oregon lists is online at <A href="http://www.oregonheritage.org/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>www.oregonheritage.org</FONT></A> (click on “National Register” at left of page).</SPAN></P>
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