Photos From the Road: Lone Pine Earthquake Cemetery

Before I turn to Lone Pine Film Festival coverage, a postscript to last month's Photos From the Road: Lone Pine Cemeteries.

As I wrote in that post, we had been unable to find a way to access the gravesite of the 1872 Lone Pine Earthquake victims. The earthquake cemetery is located on Highway 395 at the far north end of Lone Pine.

My friend Deb let us know that she'd been able to reach the site by parking on the shoulder of Highway 395, and sure enough, we found an opening in the barbed wire fence alongside the highway, as well as a few rough-hewn steps guiding us up the hill to the burial site.

Please read my previous post for more details about the earthquake, including a photo of the only piece of pre-earthquake adobe wall remaining in Lone Pine.

16 of the Lone Pine Earthquake's 27 victims were buried together in the fenced area beyond the flagpole. The earthquake gravesite is maintained by the Mt. Whitney Cemetery District.

The adobe wall which remains standing in Lone Pine was part of a store owned by Charles Meysan; sadly, Meysan's daughter Alice was one of the victims when the adobe wall of the family home collapsed on her bed. The use of adobe was discontinued in Lone Pine after the quake.

Below is a view of the Mt. Whitney Cemetery across the street from the earthquake cemetery. The Mt. Whitney Cemetery is Lone Pine's main cemetery, still in use today.  I shared a couple of photos taken inside that cemetery in my previous post on this topic.

Thanks to Deb for her help enabling us to visit this moving Lone Pine historic site.

Previously: Photos From the Road: Lone Pine Cemeteries.

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