Hamilton Cemetery may be a hard place to find if you are zipping along Hwy 20 on the North Cascades Trail in Washington State. It is not directly off Hamilton Cemetery Road as you may imagine, but at the end of Cabin Creek Road which runs perpendicular to it (address is Latitude 48.5364997 and longitude -122.0037597) and that's the only way I found it. Luckily, I happened to pull off the road and took a wild guess as to which direction this cemetery lay as there was no physical address and the Cemetery road was a very long one, running parallel to busy Hwy 20.
It was interesting to note that I drove off from Fernhill Cemetery in Anacortes earlier that morning some 35 miles away.
The cemetery is in a quiet residential area (by residential I mean there was a lone house off to the side of Hamilton cemetery and the closest house from that one was a pretty far distance away from that). Very desolate and also very dry in mid July.
Most of the stones are old and some are unreadable. It was very quiet and the only person there was myself. A lone porta-potty sat under a shady tree but I felt odd about using it. Not sure if it had seen any living souls in a while or if it had seen way too many.
I would like to learn more about the history of this old graveyard but unfortunately there is hardly any information out there. A sign greets you when you pull into the cemetery with contact phone numbers - maybe this would be the way to get some information on the history of this place. read more