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The heart of the history of any New England town can be found in it's cemeteries. This website is a collection of photographs and historical information of colonial cemeteries and gravestones of New England in southern Maine, southern New Hampshire and northeast Massachusetts. There are so many significant aspects of tombstones, from the symbolism and artwork of the carvings themselves, to the marks the individuals themselves made on history. They are a valuable learning tool that must be preserved. These headstones represent our past. They are a tangible glimpse of history. By preserving these cemeteries we gain something more to learn history by besides reading it out of a book. In genealogy research, they are often overlooked for the valuable resource they are. Within these pages are doctors, merchants, Revolutionary Patriots and Loyalists, British soldiers, judges, lawyers, sea captains, pirates and privateers, governors, slaves, military officers and veterans, Civil War generals, clergy...these people created the history of every town, and in most cases all that is left is their headstone and the impression they made on history during their time. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten....If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us. Read the order for Memorial Day from May 5, 1868. If you'd like to contribute any information about anyone on this site, or would just like to let me know you found an ancestor I'd love to hear it. Contact me using the online contact form, or email me. Read the copyright notice before copying any photos or information off this site.
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3,500 people in Secaucus New Jersey will be removed from their graves where many have rested for over 70 years. Has our need for convenience and commerce gone to far? Read more about this tragedy here.
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