Luper Cemetery

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.

Stafford Pioneer Cemetery

It took us a while to find this one.  This was our third trip searching for it.  Stafford Pioneer Cemetery is in the Mohawk Valley, Oregon.  It's located on a gravel road that looks like a shared driveway.  The cemetery itself appears to be someone's back yard.  I would assume there used to be an old farm house there, but has since been replaced by a ranch house.  No one was home and the graveyard was fenced and gated so I just snapped a few photos from outside the fence.  We also looked for the Mohawk Community Church cemetery, but without success.

Camp Creek Cemetery

It was another day of cemetery hunting.  We found two in the Marcola, Oregon area.  One is called Valley View Cemetery.  That one was not very old and my camera wasn't working anyway.  The funny thing about it is we found a geocache we weren't even looking for.

The second cemetery we found is Camp Creek Cemetery which was started in 1850.  I got my camera working finally and here are a few pics.  It is still being used and looks well cared for.

I thought the texture on the stone here was interesting.

Sarah Strange, died Feb. 3, 1897.  I about fell over when I saw this one.  That's the same name I used for a character in a short story I wrote.  It was pretty weird seeing it on a tombstone.

Here rests a Woodman of the World

The Woodman of the World Hall (WOW Hall) still stands in downtown Eugene, now used as a community music venue.

Just interesting color contrast

Pioneer Cemetery

These are pics from Crawfordsville Union Cemetery near Sweet Home, Oregon.  It is one of the oldest in Oregon.  It's supposed to be haunted, but we didn't feel anything weird there, in the late afternoon, on our visit.