Lost & Forgotten: A True History of Snohomish's First Cemetery Paperback – June 3, 2025

Perched on a bluff above the Pilchuck River, a sacred burial ground holds a forgotten past. To Coast Salish families, and later American settlers, it was a place of reverence and rest. In 1876 it became Snohomish County’s first cemetery and for decades headstones marked where the earliest pioneers lay buried.Within a few generations, the cemetery was abandoned, its records lost and graves forgotten. By the mid-20th century the burial ground had been bulldozed and built over. Local memory held faint traces of what had been. More than 100 years later, a descendant came looking for ancestors—and found instead a parking lot. Buried beneath was evidence of a past long denied.Author Taylor Russell reveals the hidden history of Snohomish’s lost cemetery. For those drawn to the stories cemeteries tell, this book explores Snohomish through its most sacred ground—a place that remembers when we do not. Read more