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Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Washington

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Located across the street from Riverside Memorial Park on Government Way, this 85-acre cemetery has three levels (or terraces). Some of Spokane's more prominent pioneers are buried in the lower two terraces, among the large trees. The 3rd Terrace has newer lawns and several mausoleums set along the top of a cliff, from which one can see the sunrise over downtown Spokane. Wild turkeys are a common sight here. The cemetery office serves both Greenwood and Riverside, both part of the Fairmount Memorial Association.

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Welcome to Greenwood Memorial Terrace. A walk through this cemetery will be a tour through Spokane’s history.

In the late nineteenth century, Spokane Falls of the Washington Territories had a problem. Entrepreneurs were flocking to the young city attracted by mining, railroad, and timber opportunities. People came to make their fortune, and others came to leverage a fortune they already had. The small city cemeteries, once on the edges of town, had been rolled over by development and were strained by a population that threatened their capacity.

Established in 1888 and designed on some of Europe’s great Victorian garden cemeteries, Greenwood was a place for the general public to enjoy refined outdoor family leisure. Developed as domesticated landscape with natural features including paths, a water fall, spring fed fountains, and serpentine roads winding along natural contours of the land, Greenwood was no less than the grand vision of the young city itself.

The first burial in Greenwood is that of Mrs. H.F. Nothbohm, on July 1, 1888. About fifty bodies exhumed from the old Mountain View Cemetery located in Cannon’s Addition on the lower South Hill, were moved to Greenwood, along with a number of bodies from the Moran Prairie Cemetery, the pioneers cemetery in Spokane.

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