Auburn Pioneer Cemetery

Auburn Pioneer Cemetery www.auburnpioneercemetery.net It is part of the Auburn cemetery system and is under the care and supervision of the Auburn Parks Department.

The Auburn Pioneer Cemetery, located at 8th NE and Auburn Way North in Auburn, Washington, contains monuments for several early Auburn-area settlers including many of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans who resided in the White River Valley prior to World War II. The cemetery is closed to new burials except for inurnment of cremated remains of family members of those already buried in the cemetery

. The Auburn Pioneer Cemetery has previously been called the Faucett Cemetery, the Cemetery at Slaughter, and the Japanese Cemetery.

04/24/2024

Learn about Japanese maritime symbolism from curator Sachiko Otsuki at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center! While you're there, check out their Prosperity of the Sea exhibit, featuring tairyō-bata from Newport's sister city Mombetsu.

Looks interesting -- and fun!
04/24/2024

Looks interesting -- and fun!

Learn about Japanese maritime symbolism from curator Sachiko Otsuki at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center! While you're there, check out their Prosperity of the Sea exhibit, featuring tairyō-bata from Newport's sister city Mombetsu.

07/11/2023
A sure sign of summer!
06/14/2023

A sure sign of summer!

05/30/2023
The local temple!
04/17/2023

The local temple!

Three months before Pearl Harbor.
09/09/2022

Three months before Pearl Harbor.

Sixth grade class at the Thomas School (North Auburn/South Kent), September 9th, 1941.

What a fascinating story!
08/05/2022

What a fascinating story!

In 1956, a metal drum containing nearly two thousand stones was unearthed at the former Heart Mountain concentration camp's cemetery. The meaning and purpose of these stones remained a complete mystery until 2001 when a team of scholars examining the stones realized that some of the characters written on them could be combined to form Buddhist terms. Could they be part of a sutra or sacred Buddhist text? Using computational analysis, the research group found the first six volumes of the Lotus Sutra perfectly matched what were known as the "Heart Mountain Mystery Stones."

During the wartime period, it was made clear to the Japanese American community that goods made in Japan or featuring Japanese script could potentially be used to prove their disloyalty. Many families burned or buried such items in the weeks and months leading up to incarceration. When they arrived at the so-called Assembly Centers, they discovered that their fears had not been unfounded; anything written in Japanese, including collections of poetry and Buddhist sutras, were confiscated by the US Army as contraband.

The fact that the sutra stones were very nearly lost to time and history is itself a lesson. Confronted by hostility, ignorance, and indifference, the Heart Mountain Sutra Stones nevertheless survived, testament to the persistence and resilience of faith in the camps.

You can see the Heart Mountain Sutra Stones on view in the exhibition, "Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" at JANM!

Looks like fun!
06/11/2022

Looks like fun!

If you're not local, you can still check out WRBT
04/12/2022

If you're not local, you can still check out WRBT

Creativity!
10/13/2021

Creativity!

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8th Street NE & Auburn Way N
Auburn, WA
98002

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+12539313028

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