Forestvale Cemetery

{{Short description|Historic cemetery in Helena, Montana, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Forestvale Cemetery

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| image = ForestvaleNHP.JPG

| caption = The arched stone entrance in 2015

| location= 490 Forestvale Road, Helena, Montana

| locmapin = Montana#USA

| built = {{Start date|1890}}

| coordinates = {{coord|46|39|23|N|112|02|13|W|source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}

| architect = Harry V. Wheeler

| added = February 21, 1990

| area = {{convert|113|acre}}

| refnum = 90000145{{NRISref|version=2013a}}

}}

Forestvale Cemetery (also known as Forest Vale Cemetery) is an historic cemetery in Helena, Montana. It was established in 1890 for the Helena Cemetery Association and laid out by Harry V. Wheeler.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=90000145}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Forestvale Cemetery |publisher=National Park Service|author=Mrs. Dorothy Wells |date=August 1988 |access-date=January 22, 2020}} With {{NRHP url|id=90000145|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}} The arched stone entrance was built in 1890. Among almost 15,000 gravestones there is a mausoleum, the original property included a house for the sexton. The cemetery has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 21, 1990.

Notable burials include Montana Governors Forrest H. Anderson (1913–1989), Tim Babcock (1919–2015), Sam C. Ford (1882–1961), Samuel T. Hauser (1833–1914), Benjamin F. Potts (1836–1887), and Sam V. Stewart (1872–1939). Other notables include businessman Charles Arthur Broadwater [1840–1892), painter Ralph E. DeCamp (1858–1936), pioneer James Fergus (1813–1902), Kentucky Governor Preston H. Leslie (1819–1907), actress Myrna Loy (1905–1993), US Senator Wilbur F. Sanders (1834–1905), and rodeo cowgirl Fannie Sperry Steele (1887–1983).{{cite news |title=Funeral Notices |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/527988881/?terms=%22Ralph%20E.%20DeCamp%22&match=1 |access-date=January 30, 2021 |work=The Independent-Record |location=Helena, Montana |date=May 30, 1936|page=5|via=Newspapers.com}}