Whispers in Will S. Green Park, Part I: The Forgotten of Block 85

Beneath Will S. Green Park once lay Colusa’s first cemetery, Block 85. Forgotten and overgrown by the 1890s, it became the subject of eerie stories after a traveler claimed the dead warned him in 1909 that the town had forsaken them. Within weeks, officials removed 73 graves to the new cemetery. The haunting tale spurred action, erasing Colusa’s earliest burial ground but not its legend.