I think we know the people working on these California cemeteries. These people have been successful in funding some cemetery preservation but even they didn't save it all. By the time they got started several gold miner's cemeteries had been encroached by builders. They managed to save half of one with the help of a big project who paid for encroaching on the other half of the cemetery and this got these people started with the funds to work on other sites. Radar searches are very expensive. Carolyn Crawford's husband is an archeologist, a Prof. at the University of Kansas. He tried first to interest the U of W Archeology Dept. in preserving this site as an Indian burial site but the U of W is not interested in the Pilchuck Indians. I have written archeologists there too and got no response. Northwest Archeologists who have done the testing for the city used ground penetrating radar but found nothing. They used several testing methods looking for burial remains and people with this experience insist they didn't do it correctly. When they used a long enough prod they did find one gravesite which is documented, which is when the city changed their tune about no graves in the cemetery. Now they admit there may be graves there but they want to build anyway. As per CC's latest announcement, it looks like they will finish and make a decision this week. That seems very fast after all the fooling around they have done over the last year. I hope Tom Haensly has been able to get his points across and the judge is aware that there are graves at this site and will accept the documentation Carolyn has accumulated with a lot of hard work over many months. She has documented some 500 graves that could still be at this site. The state only removed 110 out of a possible 1070 in 1947. The cemetery was visible in 1965 with tombstones. The Herald labeled the photo of the judge and attorneys in the "preservation" cemetery - that is a fake cemetery put together by the historians in Snohomish who should have known better. There are graves under the location of the Pioneer Village also. When they placed the old house across the street for the Senior Center they did it illegally. Now they are hoping this judge will decide it should remain for "the greater good" of the community. It will be interesting to see what happens. It certainly isn't up to those of us who have worked on it for almost a year. Norma NellJune@aol.com wrote: > > I read this in the Summer '98 issue of the Poulsbo RV 'er newspaper, and > thought that it might be of interest to those of you interested in the > Snohomish Cemetery mess: > > "In other California state parks news, at Coloma's Marshall Gold > Discovery State Park, radar "mapping" of two historic cemeteries has begun. > The hope is to identify up 400 lost gravesites. The earliest graves date from > 1849, just a year after James Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the > American River setting off the California Gold Rush." > > The operative phrase here is "radar mapping." Has that been done? Does > anyone have any idea how much that would cost? And who could do it? > > Just something to think about > > Nell > nelljune@aol.com