Boistford Pioneer Cemetery Traditional Cache
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Boistford Pioneer Cemetery
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This cemetery was used by Boistfort Pioneers from about 1852 until 1888.
This large mound is on the Old Buchanan Donation land claim. It was used by all people until the farm was sold in 1887. The new owner removed the headstones and burned over the ground. He was taken to court and was refused the right to plow the land but he refused anyone access to the property.
In the 1940's a new owner built a fence around it but it was allowed to grow up into brush.
Records of the cemetery were burned in a house fire and no one knows the number of people buried here. Old-timers think there were approximately 70 graves.
The exact location of the graves is not known as the stones had been knocked over and were just in a pile.
In 1982, out of respect and admiration of the early Boistfort Valley Pioneers, the Boistfort Lions Club asked permission of the present owner of the property, Leo Walsh,to clean up the cemetery. Permission was granted and the result is what you see today.
What stones that were found were cleaned and put in place by the Boistfort Lions.
A cross was erected, a fence built, and steps built up the hill.
We wish to express our sincere thanks to property owner Leo Walsh for helping us preserve and make available to the public this part of Boistfort Valley History.
Directions to the Boistfort Cemetery:
Take exit #77 off of Interstate 5. Go West on Washington Highway #6 for 5.4 miles to Curtis Hill Road. Take a left onto Curtis Hill Road and go 3.3 miles to Boistfort Road.
Go left on Boistfort Road 4.6 miles. The Boistfort Road changes to the Wildwood Road
at the intersection of the Boistfort Roand and the PeEll-McDonald Road. Go straight ahead on the Wildwood Road for 3 tenths of a mile. The Boistfort Cemetery is on the
right hand side of the road.
The original Boistfort Burial Grounds is on the lefthand side of the Wildwood Road on top of the large mound that you see. Access to it is via a path and steps leading from the pullout on the opposite side of the road from the 1890 cemetery that is used today.
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