North Slope Border
Due to Rapids Cemetery’s longstanding history and subsequent decline, the area was often used as a playground for neighborhood youths. By 1976 it was completely abandoned.
This 1930s newspaper photo shows the conditions that contributed to the absence of headstones today. 
Newspaper article from 1976 talking about Rapids Cemetery’s abandonment 
Heritage Tree Nursery concept proposed for Rapids Cemetery at the north border ties in with the locale’s historical use in the nineteenth century.