Historic Pinal Cemetery

The Pinal Cemetery served the nearby mill town of Picketpost/Pinal from 1876 to 1892, when the town processed silver ore from the Silver King Mine. Those buried here include a cross-section of people from the surrounding area, including first settlers, miners, mill workers, mothers and children, merchants, and others, though many are now unknown because their grave markers did not survive. After Pinal was abandoned, residents of nearby Superior continued using the cemetery until Fairview Cemetery was set aside for municipal use by the Forest Service in December 1916. The cemetery is on land administered by the Tonto National Forest and is protected under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979.

Superior, Arizona · United States