Cabinet Idaho Cemetery Association

09/07/2025

https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2025/sep/07/volunteers-band-together-to-restore-pioneer-cemetery/

A dedicated group of volunteers has restored the pioneer Cabinet Cemetery near Clark Fork, Idaho, preserving the legacy of early settlers. The site now features an information kiosk detailing gravesites, local history, and the community’s efforts to honor the past.

04/27/2025

If your planning a visit we now have new signage up to direct to the cemetery

11/22/2024

Winter is here and so the Cemetery has been cleaned up and put to bed until Spring. Currently we are working on signage that will go up along the roadway help direct visitors to the cemetery.

More will be posted once that project has been completed.

10/13/2024

We had a very fun and rewarding work party today. Completion of the trail to the Cabinet School/Catholic Church foundation and general clean up of the grounds. Thanks to all who helped

10/09/2024

There will be a two hour work party this October 12th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at the cemetery. If you would like help please come and get a history lesson as well. Thanks Craig

09/02/2024

There is going to be Fall cleanup work party on Oct 12th. If you interested in helping just send us a msg for more informatoin.

08/28/2024

Finally the last information sigh was put up today, which describes the rock foundation surrounding it as initially was the first school in the town of Cabinet. Three years later when the school became to small for the town and a larger school was built this school was purchased by the Roman Catholic Church and the school building was named St. Anothony's and used for the next four years.

08/10/2024

Finally a cool enough day to do some addtional work on the cemetery. We installed grave markers to those gravesite that lacked any identity.

In addtion, we have been working on a new information kiosk that identifies the original school to the town of Cabinet. The school only operated a couple of years when it became to small and a larger school had to be built down the hill.

After the new school was built the Roman Catholic Church purchase and the school to have a building for its members. It was called St. Anthony's and operated a few years before its memberships were transferred to a new church in Clark Fork.

Come visit the cemetery and learn more.

12/13/2023

Just thought I would post an update. This new informationi sign will be posted in the spring. It discusses the first school in the town of Cabinet located on a 1/2 acre parcel adjacent to the cemetery.

About three years after it's consturction the school became to small for the number of students attending and a new and larger school was built closer to the Clark Fork River. The property was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese in Boise, ID who then used the old school to establish their church- St. Anthony's.

It operated about four years before it was closed and built a new church in town of Clark Fork. The church donated this property to the Cemetery Association in 2014.

The foundation still exists and this sign will be used to educate the public about all the details I spoke of, along with the Methodist Church, that also was a big part for the school district and cemetery.,

I hope you come visit the cemetery soon to learn of it's history and that of the surrounding area.

09/26/2023

Recently a work party started landscaping around the foundationthat that held up the first school in the town of Cabinet.

Later in 1924, the Roman Catholic Church purchased the building and 1/2 acrre parcel from the Bonner County School District and operated the building as a church ( St. Anthony;s) where serveral priests came from as far as Boise and from Hope and Sandppoint to administer to the six Catholic families living in Cabinet.

After a few years the population of Cabinet began to decline, as did the number of Catholic families, and it was decided a new church (Sacred Heart) would be built in Clark Fork. Accordingly some of the pews were moved from this St. Anthony's chuch to the new Sacred Heart church.

The Roman Catholic Diocese in Boise continued to own this land for many years and donated the land to the Cabinet Cemetery Association in 2014,

09/17/2023

Today we finally installed the last of the Kiosk Information signs. Side one depicts a layout of the cemetery and identifies each gravesite with a name. The 2nd side is a biographical insignt to each of the deceased - when they were born, when they died, what they did on the community, where they lived and what they died from. The 3rd sign is a historical pieced of the lost town of Cabinet and the 4th panel is a history of the cemetery- how it came to be, and a recocognition of the dozens nd dozens of volunteers and vendor that help preserve the cemetery. Now is the time to visit and get an education

04/24/2023

Finally the snow is gone and some clean up of branches that fell over the winter has occurred. Let us know if you would be interrested in putting in a couple of work party hours at the cemetery.

The second pictures represents the work to expose the rock foundation tht initial supported the first school in Cabinet and later that of the first Catholic Church in the area. This occured in 1924.

Thanks