The Archdiocese hoped the rest would be used for recreation until it was needed.
Initially, only forty of the original acres were cleared of trees for immediate use. Jones Donation Land Claim and 10 acres of the former William and Levina Naylor Donation Land Claim. Located on what is now West Burnside and Skyline Boulevard, Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery sits on land that includes 20.5 acres of the former Nathan B. The need for a new cemetery, and the desire of Portland congregants for one west of the Willamette, led the Archdiocese to purchase 100 acres in Portland’s West Hills in 1888. By the late nineteenth century, Saint Mary's was at capacity. In 1858, the Roman Catholic Portland Archdiocese established its first cemetery, Saint Mary's, in East Portland next to Lone Fir Cemetery. In 2020, Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, with 53,000 graves, was the largest of three cemeteries in the Archdiocese. It was the second Catholic cemetery in Multnomah County and the first in Portland (Portland and East Portland were separate cities before 1891). Over a thousand people attended the hours-long ceremony, despite a constant, drizzling rain.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland consecrated the grounds of Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery in the West Hills of Portland on September 30, 1888.
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