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Don't Leaf Me Here! I'm Not Their Kind! LbNA #46217

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Mar 26, 2009
Location:
City:Durham
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:chthiker
Found by: Traveln Turtle
Last found:Jan 21, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFFFFaFFFOFFFFa
Last edited:Mar 26, 2009
Don’t Leaf Me Here! I’m Not Their Kind!

Location:

Old Durham Cemetery
Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut
“Main St & Old Cemetery Rd, Rt 17, Durham CT

Durham was settled in 1698. It's original name was Coginchaug. In 1704 it was changed to Durham, from the town of that name in the north of England. In 1708 Durham was incorporated as a town. This burial ground was given by the proprietors soon after the settlement of the town. The oldest gravestone in this cemetery is that of Jonathan Clemment, who died Mar 8, 1712. This cemetery has hundreds of brownstone markers, and many white marble stones. It is on a steep hill overlooking Main St. [IM” (Quoted from www.interment.net )

Parking: Park in the small pull-off on the corner of Main and Old Cemetery Road. The driveway passing below the cemetery and in front of the cemetery sign is a driveway to a private home.

Hazards:

Nearby houses with views of the cemetery.

Woodchuck hole covered with leaves. I fell in one near the box location.

Rusted fence near tree line.

Clue:

As you enter the cemetery, look up the steep hill and see a large cedar towering over the gravestones. Climb to the cedar in order to get a feel for the history of this special place. Look down to your left to see the brownstone sarcophagus of Mrs. Mary… her last name known only to the past, and make your way to her. From Mrs. Mary and the surrounding greats, look to your left to the tree line for the lonely grave of Ann Cornelius

“A (quote) Indian Girl
Died Dec 9th
1776 Aged
19 years”

Please pay your respects to this young woman who rests alone here overlooking Old Cemetery Road.

Not far down the tree line you’ll find a multi-sister ironwood. Your leaf rests here on top of a flat rock and covered with another flat rock and leaves. And, now you know how to sip the hill.