PLEASE RESPECT OUR HISTORIC GRAVEYARDS AND THE PRIVATE PROPERTY ADJOINING THEM.  

          Protection of cemeteries—Penalties.

(1) Every person who in a cemetery unlawfully or without right willfully destroys, cuts, mutilates, effaces, or otherwise injures, tears down or removes, any tomb, plot, monument, memorial, or marker, or any gate, door, fence, wall, post, or railing, or any enclosure for the protection of a cemetery or any property in a cemetery is guilty of a class C felony.  RCW 68.60.40.

Protection of Historic Graves—Penalty:  Any person who knowingly removes, mutilates, defaces, injures, or destroys any historic grave shall be guilty of a class C felony.  RCW 68.60.500

See the list of historic cemeteries in the right hand column. Walla Walla Historic Cemeteries currently holds certificates of authority from the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation for the care, maintenance, and protection of two local cemeteries, the Stubblefield Cemetery and the Lyons Creek Cemetery in the foothills of the Blue Mountains just east of Walla Walla. To contact Walla Walla Historic Cemeteries please see the Contact tab.