Luper Cemetery is one of the older pioneer cemeteries in Oregon. It is off of River Road just north of Fir Grove (Eugene). We visited it for the first time a few months ago in winter. At our first visit, it was totally overgrown with blackberry brambles and was quite eery, but I didn't have a working camera at the time. At this visit, the cemetery was partially cleaned up and much of the vegetation cleared out. It wasn't quite as eery with this visit, but it is still very damaged from extensive vandalism.
During our first visit to Luper Cemetery we found one of the graves dug up. Apparently some vandals had the gall to dig up a pioneer grave in search of some artifact or another. You can see from the above photo that the grave has since been filled in.
GO TO LUPER TODAY, WE HAVE CLEANED IT UP AND INSTALLED A KIOSKE WITH INFORMATION POSTED. WE HAVE ALSO INSTALLED A CHIP TRAIL AND REPAIRED MOST OF THE VANDALIZED TOMBSTONES. VISIT OUR WEBSITE LUPERCEMETERY.COM THANKS, RUSS VOLUNTEER
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