Washington State’s early cemetery is The Old City Cemetery in Vancouver, which dates back to 1853 and is associated with the establishment of the town of Vancouver and its early settlers. It’s one of the oldest burial sites in the state with many notable early figures of the region interred there. The cemetery is still used today.
Another old cemetery is Fort Nisqually Burial Ground, located near DuPont, Washington. Fort Nisqually was an important trading post in the mid-19th century and was established in 1833 by the Hudson’s Bay Company. The burial ground at Fort Nisqually was used to bury employees, indigenous people, and others associated with the fort during the mid-1800s.
The Oldest Cemetery in Washington state, in Vancouver, WA, is the Old Vancouver City Cemetery (also known as the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Cemetery). Its historical significance lies in several key aspects related to the early development of the Pacific Northwest, the history of Vancouver itself, and the legacy of Fort Vancouver, which was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s primary fur trading post on the Columbia River in the early 19th century.