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I Love Graveyards

Abandoned graveyards, creepy or soothing?

Heartlander · 80-89, M

Interesting .... kind of like a whole bunch of people may have left their footprint in the wrong place?

Or ...

... the town grew in the other direction?

A dozen+ years ago I attended a graveyard ceremony in a similar abandoned graveyard, though not as unkept or vandalized looking as the one in the image above. The ceremony was to place a headstone on the grave of an ancestor who was buried there 170 years ago. He had been one of the last burials at that particular graveyard.

The story behind that abandoned graveyard was that the nearby town dated back to the earliest European settlers in the area. Some years after the graveyard had been established and a few hundred burials, hostilities between the settlers and the nearby native population grew into open warfare, making the mile-long road and path to the graveyard too risky.

So, a new graveyard was established at a safer location and the old graveyard abandoned. The trip to the old graveyard had apparently become so dangerous that no one wanted to risk going there to install the headstones.