Join Clatsop Community College and Fort George Brewery for January’s Ales & Ideas Lecture on Thursday, January 4th, 2024, at 7p.m. featuring local historian and CCC instructor John Goodenberger as he presents “Searching for Astoria’s Pauper Cemetery: Learning Its Unfortunate Past”.
When three citizens found a wooden sign in Warrenton’s forest proclaiming “All is lost but hope,” they believed they discovered the entry to Astoria’s long-forgotten Pauper’s Cemetery. However, the authenticity of their discovery raised more questions than answers about the location and boundaries of the cemetery, who was buried there, and whether any grave markers remained. Goodenberger’s lecture will highlight his method of research and the findings as he and Jenkins-Smith traced the cemetery’s unfortunate past.