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In the winter/spring of 2007 good friend Diane Bain told me
her husband Bill and two friends, Bill Snider and Ralph Goodall,
rode ATV’s in the
Single
Headstone out of 18 graves at
Photo by: Neal Du Shane c. 2007
Having not been in this area previously I asked Diane if she would connect me with the three guys and ask them to show me the site. We connected and the guys took me to the Cemetery and it is posted on the APCRP website and is known as “CAMPAS CEMERTER”.
After exploring the concrete trailer pads which comprised the former Three Rivers Ranch we mounted up to explore the cemetery. As we were exiting the old ranch site I noticed what looked like a single grave on the left side of the road. After researching the rocks we discovered it was in fact an adult male’s grave.
We are trying to work with BLM in hopes they have some historical records of this site and cemetery. At this point nothing has turned up other that what Ralph and the Bill’s have been able to document from local historians.
18 graves at
Photo by: Neal Du Shane
As the picture above indicates, these 18 graves were not very deep as the rocks are piled on the surface of the ground about 18” high. There are wooden posts with numbering from 1 through 18 at the head of each grave. It is obvious someone was recording the names of those interred. But who has these records? If you know of anyone that can provide historical information on this site please have them contact me.
11/4/07 Ralph Goodall
submitted:
We recently learned from Carl, the former longtime
owner of the Wayside Inn on old Alamo Rd that the concrete pads were indeed
mainly for trailers (as you thought), and was the site of a ranch called Three Rivers Ranch. Carl was
familiar with this ranch and the others around there, such as Palmerita Ranch and Date Creek Ranch. He told us he
had lived there all his life (and I am not sure how old he is, but probably at
least in his mid-70's), and had cleared land and worked these ranches and farms
all his younger life.
Carl sold Wayside Inn this past spring and does not reside there anymore, but
apparently he still comes back to visit regularly. The new owners who
purchased in the spring had a major setback a few weeks ago--the entire Wayside
Inn building burned to the ground. They are planning to rebuild, and are
actively looking for another pre-fab building.
There are still many full and part-time RV residents living at this park.
L-R Bill Snider, Bill Bain, Ralph Goodall – 2007
Photo by: Neal Du Shane
11/16/07 Ralph Goodall
submitted:
While we were up at Alamo lake last month, we made
an attempt to locate the cemetery that you showed me from an old topographical
quad map, indicating the probable location of the cemetery associated with the
old town of Alamo (now under the lake somewhere). We pretty much zeroed
in on the GPS coordinates and could recognize we were in about the right place
based on the topographical contours, but could not find anything. Bill
did try dowsing around the area on another day after I left, but said he could
not find any indications of bodies. I know the lake has raised up over this area several times in past years during
major flood inflows from the river, which has surely made any cemetery
indications very difficult to find.
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