Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Seattle)

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington.{{Cite web |title=Mount Pleasant Cemetery – 700 W Raye St |url=https://www.qahistory.org/articles/mt-pleasant |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=Queen Anne Historical Society |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Mount Pleasant Cemetery |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/966 |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=www.historylink.org}} It opened in 1879.{{Cite web |title=A Seattle Graveyard, Full of Tragic Tales |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mount-pleasant-cemetery-seattle |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=Atlas Obscura |language=en}}

The cemetery contains the remains of the unknown dead of the 1906 {{SS|Valencia}} disaster, as well as many early Seattle pioneers, and Filipino-American author and activist Carlos Bulosan. A memorial to the dead of the 1916 Everett Massacre is located in the northeast section of the cemetery.Queen Anne Historical Society, [http://qahistory.org/mt_pleasant.htm Mt. Pleasant Cemetery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226221213/http://www.qahistory.org/mt_pleasant.htm |date=December 26, 2008 }} During World War II, the cemetery served as a site for anti-aircraft defenses.Wilma, David. [http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=3414 Seattle Neighborhoods: Queen Anne Hill -- Thumbnail History]. HistoryLink. Retrieved March 5, 2011.