Although it’s not much to look at, the two-acre Tacoma Potter’s Cemetery — also called the Pierce County pauper cemetery — holds the bodies of more than 1,600 people laid to rest between the 1880s and ...

Only a handful of faded gravestones were visible amid the tall grass of an overgrown field abutting the Tacoma Cemetery in early April. Although it’s not much to look at, the two-acre Tacoma Potter’s ...