Evergreen Cemetery is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

Juneau Juneau ( ; ), officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska, located along the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 1906, when the government of wha ...

, the capital of the

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. It was established in 1887 to replace the older cemetery on Chicken Ridge, near Main Street, when that location was staked as a gold mine. Most of the graves in this older cemetery were moved to the new cemetery between 1889 and 1892 and the rest were moved in about 1915. The grounds were deeded by Evergreen Cemetery Association to the City of Juneau on May 23, 1907. Evergreen Cemetery is operated by the Juneau Department of Parks and Recreation, and was Juneau's main cemetery from 1887 until Alaskan Memorial Park in Mendenhall Valley opened in the 1970s.

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Richard Harris Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous a ...

(died October 11, 1907, buried December 28, 1907), co-founder of Juneau *

Walter Harper Walter Harper (1893 – October 25, 1918) was a mountain climber and guide of mixed white and Alaska Native ancestry. On Saturday, 7 June 1913, he was the first person to reach the summit of Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North ...

and his bride *

Waino Edward Hendrickson Waino Edward Hendrickson (June 18, 1896June 22, 1983) was an American Republican politician & businessman, the final Governor of the Territory of Alaska, before statehood. Hendrickson was born in Juneau in 1896. He served in World War I before ...

, mayor of Juneau 1946–1953 and acting

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1957 and 1958–1959 * Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff (died September 26, 1995), ex-wife of

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...

and noted surrealist painter, sculptor, bookbinder, conservator, and musician * Joe Juneau (died March, 1899, buried August 16, 1903), co-founder of Juneau * Alfred P. Swineford,

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1885–1889 * China Joe * Elizabeth Peratrovich (died December 1, 1958), civil rights activist, Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and member of the Tlingit nation who worked for equality on behalf of Alaska Natives. * Charles W. Carter, former mortician of Evergreen Cemetery

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Cemeteries in Alaska Buildings and structures in Juneau, Alaska Tourist attractions in Juneau, Alaska Protected areas of Juneau, Alaska 1887 establishments in the United States Cemeteries established in the 1880s

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