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Hopefully this one will be a little easier and I'll get more responses. Honestly, I think this one might still be on the tough side. I have some easier ones in store for the near future.
Answer:
At Disneyland, this was the cemetery behind Fort Wilderness on Tom Sawyer Island. Walt originally intended to call the island Mickey Mouse Island and use it as a home for the Mousketeers and the Mickey Mouse Club. He changed his mind when it was decided to make the park theme oriented, and Tom Sawyer's name was chosen to better fit the western theme of Frontierland. Fort Wilderness, constructed of real logs, was built on the island after the Rivers of America had been filled, so the logs were floated across the water to the island.
Fort Wilderness was declared unsafe and closed to the public in 2003. It was torn down in June, 2007, shortly after the island was converted to Pirate's Lair. The cemetery was destroyed along with it.
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The responses I received were:
Violaine Paquel
That has to be the graveyard at the exit of the Haunted Mansion.
-- Sorry, but no. I kind of expected people to think it was somewhere around the Haunted Mansion, though.
Ann Marie Fowler
Hi, Thomas! My guess is an indian burial ground on our way around the river when we're on one of the boats (Mark Twain/Canoes/Columbia/Raft to Tom Sawyer Island).
-- It's there at the back end of the island, but it's not an indian burial ground and you can't see it from the boats. (Edited: I stand corrected. The tree cover isn't as thick back there as I had thought, and you can see that cemetery from the top deck of the Mark Twain. The people supposedly buried there were settlers and pioneers though, not indians.)
Bruce Sherman
At the Haunted Mansion.
-- Sorry, it isn't there. I read a while ago that there are seven cemeteries in Disneyland. I could only think of four, this one and three in or near the Haunted Mansion. After posting this picture, I did a little research to find the other three. I found out there is one more in the Shooting Gallery, one in the Storybook Land churchyard, and one more behind the Haunted Mansion. That last one is behind the fence in the Cast Member only area.
Shawn Finnie
Thomas, that has to be near the Haunted Mansion... Doesn't it?
-- No, not there.
Tim & Malinda
On Tom Sawyer Island at the Disneyland park.
Larry Levy
I think saying the cemetery picture is at the Haunted House is too easy, besides it looks too respectful for that. My guess is it's in Frontierland.
-- You're in the right neighborhood, but you need to narrow it down a little more than that.
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