The Eagle River Cemetery, also called the Evergreen Cemetery, is a cemetery located on highway
M-26 about south of
Eagle River, Michigan
Eagle River is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Keweenaw County. Its population was 65 at the 2020 census, which makes it by far the least-populated county sea ...
.
It was listed as a
Michigan State Historic Site
The Michigan State Historic Preservation Office is one of 59 state historic preservation offices established according to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 that plays a role in implementing federal historic preservation policy in the ...
on July 17, 1986, and is one of the oldest cemeteries in the
Keweenaw Peninsula.
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The cemetery holds 317 graves that date from 1843 through the present; 98 from the nineteenth century.][ However, the owner of the cemetery property, the Cliff Mining Company, did not officially set it aside until 1876.][
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See also
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References
External links
* {{Find a Grave cemetery
Cemeteries in Michigan
Michigan State Historic Sites in Keweenaw County
1843 establishments in Michigan
Cemeteries established in the 1840s