Thursday November 3, 2005 issue of the Everett HERALD has an article in its Local Section which reads, and I quote: Search uncovers more remains than expected Includes a Map for the proposed Site of a new Senior Center in Snohomish to be located at the Snohomish Cemetery site after it becomes decertified legally. The present Snohomish Senior Center rests on top of this cemetery today and for a number of years. The Snohomish Cemetery located at Cypress and 2nd Street had had a Hwy 2 cut through northern mid portion of the cem. for the 1947 cut made for Hwy 2 egress and ingress at the Eastern side of the City that goes over the Pilchuck Reiver to or from Monroe (et al eastern places). The Snohomish Cemetery had been abandoned over the years from about 1924 on (Pilchuck Julia, Princess of the Pilchuck Tribe, locally was buried there in 1923, said to be one of the last of the burials there). Snohomish City owned the Cemetery from the time of its inception in the late 1800s. Tombstones became in disarray by vandals who saw fit to vandalize the grave stones and the premises. Grasses and weeds were allowed to take over - little or nothing was done to clean up or improve the appearance of the Cem. It was in the state of abandonment even though it was a pioneer cemetery. Records were "lost" strayed, or "stolen" so that only research could find a list of names of those known to have been buried there. This included Indians )now known as Native Americans) as well as Caucasians. During a time when the Snohomish Cemetery came to fore with a law suit and interest some years ago, there were those who claimed that there were no remains left in the old cemetery. At first, this seemed to be true when archeological sensing didn't find anything (ground penetrating redar technique), until a more thorough search with more sophisitacted technology, and dig found the lower extremity of a skeleton - a foot, ankle, and lower leg portion could be plainly seen by the Low Family members, and myself. This incident changed those skeptics who claimed there were no remains left in the Cem. Read the article in the Herald on the front page for the article and the map showing the Site. The article continues on page B2 where the caption to the rest of the article reads Remains: Not all the graves were relocated after highway was built in 1947. The debacle ensues: The digs may relocate the remains found, whether they are Indian (Nat. Amer) or Caucasian for this South portion of Snohomish Cemetery which is on the South side of the 2nd Street access over a bridge across the Pilchuck River (formerly called the Hwy 2 cut) but there is a North portion of the Snohomish Cemetery which has not been excavated and it is a part of the original cemetery and still is except for the portion for the highway access through a portion of the cemetery as of 1947 Cut. This North portion, still a part of the original cemetery has a log cabin, several buildings, a house, and an array of several tombstones to form a sort of pioneer village, or old Snohomish village park - all buildings and tombstones brought in and placed there to form this park setting, on top of the North portion of Snohomish Cemetery - the original one. Is the decertification, if made possible, only, going to be applied to the South Portion on the South side of the highway cut of 1947, or its it said that no graves exist in the North portion of this Cemetery which resides on the North side of the highway cut of 1947? Ref. The HERALD, Everett, WA. Date: Thurs. Nov. 3, 2005 Section: Local Site: http://www.heraldnet.com/about Article: Search uncovers more remains than expected Workers find 50 burial sites where Snohomish is building its new senior center By Yoshiaki Nohara, Herald Writer Map showing location of proposed site of New Senior Center - doesn't name Cypress Street, but does show the Pilchuck River just east of the site below the cemetery. "Cemetery" is shown on the map location. On p. B2 the article continues: Remains : Not all the graves were relocated after highway was built And a quote of Larry Bauman, Snohomish city manager "I think it's important to realize this process has a potential benefit for families." COMMENT: Tres interestant (sans acute accent) CC. Carroll in Snohomish (WA) * * * 30 * * * -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/160 - Release Date: 11/3/05