Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery

Paige Montgomery, Gwenonwyn Knoop, Chad Lott, Jasmin

Aguilar, Abdulrahman Alabdullatif, Andrew Hughes

Block 14
Institutions of Lone Fir and Block 14

Institutions and the Chinese.

Excavation.
Deportation.
Plans for prime business location.
New information comes forward in 2004.
Tests are conducted.
Evidence is discovered and the land reclaimed.
Remaining structure is torn down and site returned to original state.

Block 14 Continued
Future plans of Block 14 and the Cultural Heritage Garden

Lone Fir Cemetery Foundation.

Unappreciated laborers and asylum patients honored.
Finances and physical plans.
Visions and ideals for the garden.
How does this make an impact on the once underrecognized culture?
When will the Cultural Heritage Garden be accessible?

The Asylum Patients

Oregon Hospital for The Insane.

Dr. Hawthorne

The establishment of the Asylum patients section.

The segregation within the cemetery

The results of the segregation.

Chinese Immigrants in
Oregon and Portland

Why did Chinese want to leave

China?
Attraction to West America
Struggles for Chinese Immigrant in
America
Portlands acceptance of Chinese
Immigrants
Lone Fir Cemeteries Old Chinese
Burial Grounds

Firemen in the Lone Fir Cemetery:

There is 132 firemen buried in the Firemens Cemetery

13 of those men died while in duty
Some hold private headstones
20 firemen were removed to lie with their families but their fire department marks
remain

Firemen's Role In The Community:

Portland Fire Department was an all-volunteer work until 1883

Because of the number of years that volunteering took place, these men held an
important value within the community

The Great Fire:

The great fire stroke out on August 3, 1873 in the Hurgren and Shindler furniture shop
Burned a total of twenty-two blocks due to the failure of the bell being heard in the
Willamette Engine Company #1
New bell was ordered and the volunteer work for the Fire Department came to an end

Adam Augustus Waterford:

Adam Augustus Waterford was the first black firefighter hired by the Fire Bureau
(1890-1895)
He is buried at the Lone Fir Cemetery in block 26 but does not hold a headstone
Group of students from Madison High School took a Portland History class which led
them to find out about Waterfords lack of recognition and decided to get donations
and make him a headstone

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