Guided Tour: Stories in Stone “I enjoyed the Historical Tour – I’ve taken it twice! – but what about the rest of the cemetery? What is that structure? Who is this and why is their name familiar? Is this granite? What does this symbol mean?” Read Full Post
Guided Historical Tours Want to get to know the cemetery better? Take one of our monthly tours. Tours highlight Portland’s founders and regionally-known pioneers. Second Saturday of the Month: March 12 April 9 May 14 June 11 July 9 August 13 September 10 October 8 Read Full Post
Happy April! It is that time again for our monthly headstone cleaning workshops. They kick off again this month through September and are every third Saturday from 10am to noon. Ever wonder the proper way to clean a headstone or want to get more involved Read Full Post
With approval of the city, we have a slate of new tours available in the coming months! Reserve a spot here.
Due to inclement weather, the headstone cleaning workshop on the 18th of September will be canceled.
Just a quick update to let everyone know that we will not be doing any Halloween event this year. We have had quite a few inquiries and wanted to let everyone know that unfortunately we will not be doing Tour of Untimely Departures or any Read Full Post
Meet at the Soldiers Monument at 10am for a tutorial on how to clean and spruce the headstones at Lone Fir Cemetery. The workshop runs from 10am until noon and there is no fee. We provide the supplies! Gloves are handy and please dress to Read Full Post
We are back in action… We are slowly making our way back into monthly events and activities at Lone Fir Cemetery. We are starting off with our monthly historical tour and the first one will kick off in July on the regular cadence of the Read Full Post
A tiny update – We appreciate all the messages about Lone Fir and our status on tours and our workshops. As of now we don’t have much to report as COVID-19 is still ever present but when we are able to conduct tours and workshops Read Full Post
We sure do miss giving tours and working on cleaning headstones but this year took a turn for all of us with Covid-19. When we resume our tours and events we will let everyone know- we may consider very small tour sizes but that is Read Full Post