The deserted village of Auburn, OR.

Auburn was a mining town and was the seat of Baker County from 1862 to 1868. It is reached by taking State Highway 7 south out of Baker City for about 7 miles to its junction with a dirt road south of Baker City (at end of Bowen valley south of Baker City). Turn right on this road in the Blue Canyon about 3 miles. Auburn is to the right and the cemetery is one mile beyond on a hill overlooking the no-longer existsent ghost town. High ground was chosen for the cemetery so it would not be mined out later, the canyon being of very rich ground. This is one of the earliest cemeteries in the county.

Originally there were three cemeteries in this vicinity, one for whites and two for Chinese. One Chinese cemetery was just over the hill from the Auburn Cemetery, the other was a later cemetery north of Auburn. Most bodies from these Chinese cemeteries had been shipped back to China and buried in their homeland.

There were over 100 burials in the Auburn Cemetery, established in 1862 but many of the graves are now unmarked and cannot be identified. Only 1 is visible today. Names of the first 5 men to be buried are not known as none of them died of natural causes and stone markers were not erected. There are no known records maintained for this cemetery. Grounds are abandoned to the wilds. The acreage is .05.