Pioneer Cemetery & the Civil War Program, Jan. 8

As we acknowledge the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, join Brown University graduate student and cemetery volunteer Becky Soules at Coos Bay Public Library on Thursday, January 8, 2015, at 7 p.m. for a presentation about some of Coos Bay’s connections to the Civil War. Coos Bay’s Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery is the final resting place for over sixty veterans of the Civil War. In the aftermath of the war, opportunities in the booming Coos Bay region lured disabled and displaced veterans to the area. Civil War veterans shaped the city’s development in the ensuing decades, establishing a local newspaper, representing the region in the state senate, serving as the port’s customs officer, and working in jobs ranging from lawyers to lighthouse keepers. For more information about this program and other Coos Bay events relating to the Civil War sesquicentennial, please contact 541-435-1177 or cbcemetery@gmail.com.