Cloverland Cemetery

The town of Cloverland was established in 1902 and its founders had grand visions and promises for the people that moved there. As attempts to grow orchards here failed, most of its few hundred residents left to seek better opportunities. Today the Cloverland Garage, formerly a general store and a dance hall before that, is one of the few remaining relics of this short-lived attempt at finding fortune in the state of Washington. All homes and other buildings have since been torn down or left to the elements and the cemetery remains one of the few reminders of the former community.

Cloverland was founded in 1902 as an orchard town. The new town was marketed to land buyers as "the best opportunity for investment in the West today," and people came from as far as Virginia and North Carolina to try their hand at what the town promised them. By the end of the same year, Cloverland had 20 houses, a school, and a building called Howard's Hall, a dance hall named for one of the town's builders. Howard's Hall later became a general store and later, as cars became more popular, a garage and car dealership. This building is one of the only buildings still standing today in Cloverfield.

Unfortunately, all plans to convert Cloverland into well-irrigated orchards and fields failed. The town's population peaked in 1910 at only 400 people. After this, most people left to try again somewhere else, with only those who could afford to raise livestock remaining. Over the following decades they left too, and today the Cloverland Garage, cemetery, and nearby Barkley Hotel are the only remnants of the short-lived Cloverland venture.

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