The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a French Catholic missionary congregation, established a residential school for indigenous children on the Tulalip Reservation in 1857. Father Eugene Casimir Chirouse chose a site at Rocky Point, which was renamed Priest Point, and a log house was constructed for the Mission of St. Anne's. It was moved to a new hillside location on modern-day Meridian Avenue with an adjacent cemetery. The residential school received federal funding and remained at Priest Point until it was destroyed by a fire in 1902 and replaced by a new campus near Mission Beach. Approximately two dozen unmarked graves at the Priest Point Cemetery have the remains of children who died at the residential school.
The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a French Catholic missionary congregation, established a residential school for indigenous children on the Tulalip Reservation in 1857. Father Eugene Casimir Chirouse chose a site at Rocky Point, which was renamed Priest Point, and a log house was constructed for the Mission of St Anne's. It was moved to a new hillside location on modern-day. Meridian Avenue with an adjacent cemetery The residential school received federal funding and remained at Priest Point until it was destroyed by a fire in 1902 and replaced by a new campus near Mission Beach. Approximately two dozen unmarked graves at the Priest Point Cemet.ery have the remains of children who died at the residential school.