The Hidden Cemetery

Massachusetts · USA · Cemetery

A small disused burial ground on a blocked off road, with stones going back to the 1600s.

This small cemetery at Palmer, Massachusetts is no longer used and sits on a road that has been blocked off, at the corner of Flynt Street and Route 32.

The headstones go back to the 1600s.

That is remarkably early. Stones from the 1600s mean the first English generation in the Connecticut valley, people who arrived when this was frontier and King Philip's War was still to come.

What is reported there is the modern investigator's set: circles of light in photographs, figures said to resemble the people buried there, and voices on recordings.

A burial ground cut off by a closed road is a particular kind of forgotten. Nobody drives past it, which is why it survives with its earliest stones intact.

It is a burial ground and should be treated as one.

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Hvor ligger The Hidden Cemetery?

The Hidden Cemetery ligger i Massachusetts, USA.