History detectives searching through 100-year-old newspaper clippings, cemetery maps and records from Oregon’s first insane asylum think patients are buried under a parking lot at Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery. Records show that at least 140 indigent patients are buried at the cemetery, and most are probably near or under the lot at Southeast Morrison and […]
The last public meeting co-hosted by Metro and the Mental Health Association of Portland about the creation of a memorial for the patients of the Hawthorne Asylum and a remembrance of the good works of Dr. James C Hawthorne is TODAY. Public Meeting Today October 10 2:30 PM Central City Concern Richard Harris Community – […]
The Mental Health Association of Portland, along with Metro, have created an online survey to collect opinions and ideas about a new memorial space at Lone Fir Cemetery. Input from the mental health community is being solicited NOW. Click Here to take our survey One public meeting has already been held to collect community input. […]
The Lone Fir Cemetery on SE Morrison and 20th Avenue is one of Portland’s oldest resting places, holding over 50,000 bodies, most interred prior to 1920. Spectral, romantic, certainly haunted, filled with beautiful oaks, firs and thousands of ornate and rapid aging headstones, Lone Fir is a vault of Portland’s history. One of the untold […]
Column by Margie Boule, published in The Oregonian April 8, 1999 Today, a pop quiz: What do Madonna, the first editor of The Oregonian, juvenile delinquents and the sister of a mysterious madam have in common? I wandered through the answer on a sunny morning not long ago. Back in the early 1900s, the owner […]
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