In 1914, when Lassen County and T.A. Ramsey did a land exchange wherein the County obtained thirty acres on Richmond Road and Ramsey the County Hospital property at the end of Miller Road. The County went ahead with initial plan to build a new hospital. The County was also in need of another cemetery, as the Susanville Cemetery was running out of plots. It was the County’s original intention to establish a new cemetery on what would later become the Roosevelt School property.