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Seattle Cemetery

Also known as Seattle Depot Street Cemetery

Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

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  • Get directions Denny Way
    Seattle, Washington 98109 United States
    Coordinates: 47.61915, -122.34092
  • This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
  • No longer accepting burials
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This was the first municipal cemetery in Seattle, located along Depot Street (now Denny Way) - then nothing more than a wagon trail stretching north from the city. The first burials in the early 1860's were bodies moved from other informal burial sites in the area. Although already in use as a cemetery as early as 1861, the land was officially designated and donated to the city of Seattle by David and Louisa Denny in 1864.


In February, 1884 a city ordinance was passed directing the removal of all burials at Seattle Cemetery in preparation for expansion of Seattle's commercial needs. By November of that year, all 223 burials had been moved - to Masonic, Calvary, Washelli, Oak Lake and Mount Pleasant cemeteries in Seattle area.


The land which included Seattle Cemetery was located on Denny Hill, one of the renowned "Seven Hills of Seattle". Beginning in 1908 and continuing in phases until 1932, the Denny Hill Regrade flattened the hill, moving some 45 million tons of earth to provide a more usable flat terrain for development.


All burials from this cemetery were moved (as noted above) in 1884. By 1932 the actual cemetery land had been graded away and used as fill in other parts of Seattle, or dumped into the waters of Puget Sound. Although the present-day Denny Park is located at the site of Seattle Cemetery, it sits 60 feet lower than the original cemetery elevation.

This was the first municipal cemetery in Seattle, located along Depot Street (now Denny Way) - then nothing more than a wagon trail stretching north from the city. The first burials in the early 1860's were bodies moved from other informal burial sites in the area. Although already in use as a cemetery as early as 1861, the land was officially designated and donated to the city of Seattle by David and Louisa Denny in 1864.


In February, 1884 a city ordinance was passed directing the removal of all burials at Seattle Cemetery in preparation for expansion of Seattle's commercial needs. By November of that year, all 223 burials had been moved - to Masonic, Calvary, Washelli, Oak Lake and Mount Pleasant cemeteries in Seattle area.


The land which included Seattle Cemetery was located on Denny Hill, one of the renowned "Seven Hills of Seattle". Beginning in 1908 and continuing in phases until 1932, the Denny Hill Regrade flattened the hill, moving some 45 million tons of earth to provide a more usable flat terrain for development.


All burials from this cemetery were moved (as noted above) in 1884. By 1932 the actual cemetery land had been graded away and used as fill in other parts of Seattle, or dumped into the waters of Puget Sound. Although the present-day Denny Park is located at the site of Seattle Cemetery, it sits 60 feet lower than the original cemetery elevation.

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  • Added: 21 Jun 2009
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2310974