The Eastside city's origin story will come up a lot during this year's annual history tour of Kirkland Cemetery.
Matt McCauley, vice president of Kirkland Heritage Society, will lead the annual history tour of Kirkland Cemetery on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 10 a.m.
“It is probably the oldest park in the city of Kirkland,” McCauley told KIRO Newsradio. “It was platted with the original town plat in 1888, and interment started around 1890. So it has been kind of at the heart of Kirkland since the very beginning” when Peter Kirk and other investors were in the early phases of their ultimately failed plan to manufacture steel rails in Kirkland.
“We use the donations exclusively to buy markers for unmarked graves here in the cemetery,” McCauley said. “There were periods of time, like during the Great Depression, where people didn’t have very much money, and often they would own the burial plot, but they didn’t have enough for a stone, or there’s a lot of reasons this happened,” he explained.
One insider tip: there’s no parking in the cemetery, but there is street parking on 120th Avenue NE and 122nd Avenue NE, plus Lake Washington High School is right across the street and likely a good bet for finding a spot on Saturday morning.Once the two-hour tour ends, McCauley says he’ll stay behind to answer specific questions or help track down specific graves.
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