Founded in 1890 as the Helena Cemetery, Forestvale Cemetery occupies 150 acres (according to current tax records) in the Helena Valley. The name was changed to Forestvale in 1901.
There are over 14,000 individuals buried at Forestvale, including many notable Montana pioneers. It is also the final resting place of motion picture star Myrna Loy, a Helena native.
"In 1888, there were three public cemeteries in Helena, all of which were owned and operated by religious organizations: a Catholic cemetery, Jewish cemetery and the Benton Avenue Cemetery, which was generally populated by Protestants. As the city of Helena was expanding rapidly, growing from a population of 3,000 in 1880 to over 13,000 in one decade, the city government recognized the need for additional burial space outside of the city limits. During the summer of 1889, a group of Helena investors began to investigate suitable sites of the establishment of a new cemetery, and purchased 140 acres located about 2-1/2 miles from town, for $3500 from Charles C. Colber and his wife."
"There were over 400 exhumations from other cemeteries reinterred in Forestvale. These
reinterments came from the abandoned Catholic Cemetery south of the State Capitol,
City Cemetery behind Central School, Catholic Cemetery on Oakes, Benton Avenue Cemetery and Mountain Home Cemetery. They were also removed from several ranches in the Helena area, other towns in Montana, and many were removed from Beaver Creek when Canyon Ferry Reservoir flooded the area."
The cache is located oustide the cemetery Entrance near the stone wall.
Also, rumor has ir that the cemetery is haunted so if you try to find it at night, you might see some ghosts.