Building Oregon
23710 Items View all

Work provided by University of Oregon

Salem Pioneer Cemetery (Salem, Oregon)

Alternative Title
  • Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery (Salem, Oregon)
Photographer
Description
  • National Register (Listed, 2013)
View
  • exterior: central avenue and grounds from west boundary; looking east, April 2012
View Date
  • 1900/2000
MODS Note
  • The cemetery, established in 1854 by Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is among the very oldest fraternal society burial grounds in Oregon. Located on South Commercial Street, the historical alignment of the territorial road, the cemetery rises upslope toward the west, to a point overlooking the Willamette Valley to the east. By 1890 the cemetery had been enlarged to its current size of 17.05 acres, representing the city’s only example of a cemetery in the Rural Cemetery tradition. It is known as the final resting place of Samuel R. Thurston, Oregon’s first delegate to the Congress of the United States, and as the burial ground of many other significant figures in early Oregon government and the founding of the capital city’s educational, social and commercial institutions. The Salem Pioneer Cemetery Association, organized in 1949, changed the cemetery’s name before disbanding in 1954. Today the cemetery is under the on-going stewardship of the City of Salem and the Friends of Pioneer Cemetery. It remains an active burial ground for the descendants of original plot owners
  • This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Rights Holder
  • Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
Identifier
  • OR_MarionCounty_SalemPioneerCemetery_0002
Source
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Institution
Submission Date
  • 05/04/2015
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (25 Apr 2025). Salem Pioneer Cemetery (Salem, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67sd302

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Salem Pioneer Cemetery (Salem, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 25 Apr 2025. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67sd302

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Salem Pioneer Cemetery (Salem, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67sd302

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67sd302 | title= Salem Pioneer Cemetery (Salem, Oregon) |author= |accessdate= 2025-04-25 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Potter, Elisabeth Walton, 1939- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006084404
2 Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
3 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
4 complexes (buildings and sites) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300000202
5 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
6 cemeteries http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300266755
7 roads http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300008217
8 Marion County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5739051/
9 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
10 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
11 Salem >> Marion/Polk Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5750162/
12 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

Please use the contact form to submit inquiries about this system; to report a problem you are experiencing with the system; to request assistance using the system; or to provide general feedback. See the Help page for additional information about this system.

Oregon Digital is a joint collaboration between the University of Oregon Libraries and Oregon State University Libraries & Press. Oregon Digital hosts materials from both institutions, as well as collaborating partners.

Please use the following form to send us feedback:

Contact Form