Beyond Understanding

Three thousand two hundred and sixty

Over 3,260 people were buried at the Duwamish Cemetery, also known as the Potter's Field.   
The Cemetery, circa 1876, was located on a knoll overlooking a bend in the Duwamish River.  All of the burial grounds’ inhabitants were exhumed and cremated in 1912 to make way for the Duwamish River straightening and industrial development. Their ashes were mishandled in a manner deemed “beyond understanding” by the State Auditor’s 1913 Report, leading to mysteries surrounding the entire Cemetery closure process.

Find out what happened at the end of 1912 to the human remains, which the State Auditors deemed "beyond understanding."