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MultCo Board apologizes for ‘historic harm’ to Chinese Americans at Lone Fir Cemetery

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners is formally apologizing for the governmental entity’s role in “historic harm” that led to desecrating graves belonging to members of ...
Willamette Week

Multnomah County Formally Apologizes for Desecrating the Graves of Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Americans in Lone Fir Cemetery

“This has been a long time coming,” Chair Jessica Vega Pederson said at the June 26 meeting of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners before it unanimously approved a resolution apologizing to ...
Oregonian

‘An apology is way overdue’: Chinese community calls on Multnomah County to recognize wrongs at Lone Fir Cemetery

In April 1928, Multnomah County purchased Lone Fir Cemetery and promptly closed a section of the burial ground reserved for people of Chinese descent. Officials spent the decades that followed ...
Oregonian

Metro releases renderings for Chinese gravesite memorial at Lone Fir Cemetery

Metro is giving the public its first look at a new memorial honoring the untold and nearly erased stories of some of the people buried at Portland’s oldest cemetery. For years, a section of the Lone ...