Mormon Island Cemetery Traditional Cache
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I've been wanting to stake a claim at an old pioneer cemetery for a long time now. While walking around and looking at all of the "Unknown Remains", I couldn't help but think about my Great, Great Grandfather Smith Carney who came to Pilot Hill in 1851 for the Gold Rush. The location of his remains are also "unknown". Along with the unknown tombstones, I also saw Veterans from WWI, WWII, The Mexican War and even the Civil War. What an interesting place. Feel free to take a stroll around this sad yet historical site. And as always, please be respectful of the residents here. Thanks!
Here's some history of the Mormon Island Cemetery:
Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery was created in 1954 by the Army Corps of Engineers to replace the cemeteries at Salmon Falls, Negro Hill, Condemned Bar, McDowell's Hill, and Natural Dam in El Dorado County, the cemeteries at Dolton's Bar and Carrollton Bar in Placer County and Mormon Island in Sacramento County which were submerged below Folsom Lake when the Folsom Dam was built. Responsibility for the Mormon Island Cemetery was taken over by El Dorado County from the Army Corps of Engineers in October of 1954.
Five individual graves were also relocated from various locations to the new Mormon Island Cemetery. The earliest burial from any of these cemeteries could have been 1848, since several of these Mining Camps were first established in that year.
In 1996, remains from the Prairie City Cemetery in Sacramento County were interred after being discovered during the construction of the Prairie City Road on-ramp to Highway 50.
The cemetery is located off Blue Ravine/Green Valley Rd just east of the Sacramento/El Dorado County line. Although the cemetery is not full, it is being held in reserve for future relocation needs such as happened with the Praire City Cemetery.
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