Humbug, later renamed North Bloomfield in 1857 when the town received its post office, was a mining community whose people came seeking riches in an unknown wilderness and transformed the landscape, leaving a legacy of turmoil, destruction, invention, and hard-lived lives. In 1855, Isreal Joiner, who was shot for stealing gold from a sluice box, and George Carter, who lived to be 80, were the first buried in Humbug Cemetery. After the town's renaming, George Edwards, John Enders, John McNulty, and Louise Miller were the first buried in North Bloomfield Cemetery. By the end of the nineteenth century, as mining declined, the town was nearly dead, but the cemetery continued to grow, and by 1984 there were 170 recorded burials from Austria, Australia, Bavaria, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Portugal, Prussia, Scotland and America. In March 2017, Debra Phanner, a long time park assistant, was buried there.