First Shiprock Cemetery in Shiprock, New Mexico

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Get directions Shiprock, New Mexico, USA

Coordinates: 36.79026, -108.68096
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The Navajo Community of Shiprock was founded in 1903 when New Mexico was still a territory. And in time they found a located on the old north side of town on the upper mesa that overlooks the community for their cemetery. There are over one hundred burials here that are only recognized by the numerous small circles and mounds of river rocks. There are only four graves that have legible headstones or markers that have survived the decades, all the others are only known to the "Great Spirit". Long forgotten for over seventy-five years, the last known burial was in the mid 1940's.