Brookside Cemetery | |
The cemetery in 2012 | |
Coordinates | 45°13′06″N 123°04′24″W / 45.2184456°N 123.0733796°W |
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MPS | Brookside Cemetery |
NRHP reference No. | 87000332 |
Brookside Cemetery is an historic 3.41-acre cemetery in Dayton, Oregon, United States. Joel Palmer set aside land for the cemetery in the 1850s; he deeded the site to the Dayton School District in 1874. 479 people are known to have been buried there between July 1864 and June 1987; there are presently no vacant plots.[1] The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2]