Bagdad Cemetery

 cemetery, place with historical importance, ghost town

Bagdad Cemetery
San Bernardino County, California

Lat: 34° 35' 17"N, Lon: 115° 52' 27"W
T6N R11E Sec 30

Driving west on National Trails Highway, 7.3 miles west of the railroad crossing at Amboy arrive at a large cleared area on the north side of the highway with a lone salt cedar tree. This is the site of the former roadside business at Bagdad. The cemetery is on the north side of the tracks, directly north of the tree.

Bagdad Cemetery is near the former site of the railroad depot of Bagdad on the north side of the railroad tracks. In addition to a depot and a Harvey House next to the tracks that served the railroad Bagdad also had a café, a small hotel and a service station on the highway that serviced traffic on old Route 66 and was a watering hole for miners in the area.

There are 17 graves at Bagdad, ten of which have wooden crosses or the remains of wooden markers with no information. Some of the graves are rings of stones or mounds of dirt and all of the graves seem to be very old. One grave, possibly two, seem to have been excavated. The cemetery has a perimeter fence of nine wooden stakes with a single strand of barbed wire and overall the cemetery is in poor condition.