Lookout Cemetery - Lookout, CA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
N 41° 12.228 W 121° 09.475
10T E 654447 N 4563017
A nice, well-maintained cemetery in the small community of Lookout that carries a dark secret.
Waymark Code: WMVVDK
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/28/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member elyob
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Lookout Cemetery is a smaller cemetery but well-maintained and contains the graves of pioneers to the area in the late 1800s. For such a small cemetery, I was surprised to see a large number of zinc headstones here as well as discovering the smallest zinc headstones I've ever seen, belonging to infants.

This cemetery is also home to some out-of-place graves belonging to a group of five men (and a teen) in the southwest corner of the cemetery property who were lynched over a bridge in Lookout in the early 1900s for petty theft crimes. This lynching was supposedly the last family lynching in the United States. There's a book about the lynching that I purchased and read titled Murder in Modoc: The Lookout Lynching and the story is a sad and unfortunate read and a dark-kept secret for the community of Lookout.

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Lookout

Approximate number of graves: 450

Cemetery Status: Active

Cemetery Website: [Web Link]

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