Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery
Sunset at GAR Cemetery Park
Cemetery Details
Year established:	1895
Country:	United States
Location:	Seattle, Washington
Number of gravesites:	526
Website:	GAR Cemetery from the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation website

The Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery on Seattle, Washington's Capitol Hill is situated just north of Lake View Cemetery on the hill's northern slope, on E. Howe Street between 12th and Everett Avenues E. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,944 × 2,592 pixels, file size: 1. ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Seattle redirects here. ... Seattle redirects here. ... Capitol Hill Capitol Hill is the second most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, after Belltown (north of downtown). ... Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery located on Seattle, Washington, USAs Capitol Hill just north of Volunteer Park, so named because of its view of Lake Washington to the east. ...

It was established in 1895 by Seattle's five Grand Army of the Republic posts (Stevens Post #1, Miller Post #31, Cushing Post #56, Saxton Post #103, and Green Lake #112) on land donated by Huldah and David Kaufman, two of the first Jews in Seattle, having arrived there in 1869. The cemetery was maintained by the G.A.R. posts until 1922, at which point the property exclusive of the 526 gravesites was transferred to the city of Seattle, the gravesites were transferred to the Stevens Post, and the neighboring Lake View Cemetery was hired to maintain the grounds. Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Stephenson GAR Memorial, Washington, D.C. The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the American Civil War. ... Isaac Ingalls Stevens (March 25, 1818 - September 1, 1862) was the first governor of Washington Territory, and served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War until his death at the Battle of Chantilly. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ancient unreadable gravestones mark the position of graves in the parish churchyard at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England A grave is a place where the body of a dead animal, generally human, is buried, often after a funeral. ...

The cemetery went into decline over the following decades, however, because of confusion over land title, the failure in 1939 to secure a WPA project, the imposition during World War II of the Coast Artillery on the grounds, and so on. In 1960 an attempt was made to transfer maintenance to the Veterans Administration, either in place or by moving the graves to Fort Lawton in Magnolia, now Discovery Park, but the VA was unable to spend money on cemeteries owned by others, and the graves were never moved. The land surrounding the graves came under the jurisdiction of Seattle's Department of Parks and Recreation. Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... WPA Graphic The Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for administering programs of veterans benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors. ... Fort Lawton is a United States Army fort located in Seattle, Washington. ... Magnolia Magnolia is a large, hilly, peninsular neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, connected to the rest of the city by only three bridges over the tracks of the BNSF Railway: W. Emerson Place in the north, W. Dravus Street in the center, and W. Garfield Street (the Magnolia Bridge) in the... Categories: US geography stubs | Seattle parks ...

In 1996, the parks department proposed that the park become an off-leash dog-run; in response to this, the Friends of the GAR Cemetery Park was formed the next year. They now staff monthly work parties, are involved in headstone replacement, and perform daily flag raising. Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Union Jack. ...

See also

• Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery (Portland)

The Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery is a cemetery for American Civil War veterans in the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon. ...

External links

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Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Park, Seattle

• Friends of the GAR Cemetery Park
• Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation: GAR Cemetery
• Seattle GAR Cemetery--Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Stevens Camp #1
• Internees list (PDF)