Mitchell-Dyer Family Cemetery

If anyone from the Mitchel-Dyer family would like to be an Admin to this page to help run it, please send me a message. I am not on Facebook often and I am sure a family member will do a much better job keeping this page updated than me!

A descendant of the Mitchel-Dyer Family has informed me that a development company has purchased the land that the cemetery sits on and they are working with the family and have plans to clean up and restore what is left of the cemetery to make it a special place to honor the ones laid to rest here.

Anyone been to the cemetery recently?

This is what the cemetery used to look like before it was neglected and vandalized. http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/ap1819.htm

The home where the Mitchell Family lived. http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/ap1815.htm

Here is a video on SCVTV.com interviewing the Dyer family. http://www.scvtv.com/html/legacydyer100109.html

An article on SCVHistory.com about George Walters and the Dyer Family. http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhi/georgewalters-rismanchi.htm

An article in The Signal Newspaper about the cemetery. http://www.the-signal.com/section/36/article/71591/

The cemetery on findagrave.com http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi&

I contacted the city of Santa Clarita and they said that there is nothing they can do about the condition of the cemetery at the moment. I was told that the county owns the property that the cemetery sits on even though it is within city limits. They also said that the owner of the property it is on plans on selling it to a development company that will be building on the property but will not be destroying the cemetery and has plans to actually restore it. They said that when the development company purchases the property it will then become Santa Clarita city property and if the company that owns the property does not do something about the condition of the cemetery, the city will step in and they have plans to restore it.

Hello, couple of months ago my father told me that there was an old abandoned cemetery somewhere in Canyon Country and I did not believe him. So I did some research and sure enough there actually was and it is the Mitchell-Dyer Family Cemetery. Well I wanted to see it for myself because I am a huge history buff so I went out to see it and I thought it was pretty interesting. The only bad part is that it is currently in shambles from neglect and hooligans vandalizing it. So I have made it my goal to try and get this cemetery on the map so hopefully it will be noticed so it can be properly restored and kept up like it should be, because not only is it a great piece of Santa Clarita history, it should be kept up in respect for the dead and that is why I made this page. So please like this page and help me get this place noticed!

These are pictures of the cemetery and all the headstones.