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In 1996, the parks department proposed that the park become an off-leash dog-run; in response to this, the Friends of the GAR Cemetery Park formed the next year. Members of the group now staff monthly work parties, are involved in headstone replacement, and perform daily
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Post #1, Miller Post #31, Cushing Post #56, Saxton Post #103, and Green Lake #112 – established the cemetery in 1895 on land donated by Huldah and David Kaufman, two of the city's earliest
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settlers, who arrived in 1869. The G.A.R. posts maintained the cemetery until 1922, when they gave the property, excluding of the 526
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The cemetery fell into decline over the following decades, because of confusion over land title, the failure in 1939 to secure
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of the Coast Artillery on the grounds, and so on. In 1960, the city attempted to transfer maintenance to the
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery
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on the hill's northern slope, on East Howe Street between 12th and Everett Avenues East.
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Seattle GAR Cemetery – Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Stevens Camp #1
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during the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War.
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from the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation website
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Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation: GAR Cemetery
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Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery (Portland, Oregon)
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47°38′11″N 122°18′57″W / 47.63639°N 122.31583°W / 47.63639; -122.31583
GAR Cemetery
Seattle, Washington
Capitol Hill
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Lake View Cemetery
Grand Army of the Republic
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