Valley Cemetry LbNA #53712 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 26, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Manchester |
| County: | Hillsborough |
| State: | New Hampshire |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | rembis  |
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| Found by: | 3 Purple Mushrooms |
| Last found: | Jun 19, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFaFaaa |
| Last edited: | May 26, 2010 |
- The entrance to the cemetry is near Green Street. Enter the cemetry.
- Follow the path straight to the small church. Once facing the church turn right and follow the path. (You will pass the Elliot tombstone 2nd on left)
- Go pass the huge EW Harrington stone grave house on the left. Keep following the path, you are now heading toward the street.
- Follow path to the left (pass the Smith tombstone, last on left)
- Keep following path until you see a chain across the pathway that says STOP. Look at the tree next to the chain on your left (there is a sign on the tree that says Eastern Hemlock)
-Look behind the tree, under the leaves and sticks you will find the letter box.
HISTORY:
Valley Street Cemetery sits on 20 acres donated by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1840. This parcel of land had a "valley" running through the middle of it, that’s why it is called Valley Cemetery. It is one of the largest cemeteries in the city.
During the city's cholera disease epidemics in the 1850's, trustees found it necessary to designate the northeast corner of the cemetery for victims of the decease. Burials were performed at night in a mass grave. By 1859 most of the plots in the Valley were sold. Pine Grove Cemetery was established because of Manchester's tremendous population increase.
Memorial Day was established in 1868 to remember the veterans of the Civil War. Solemn celebrations took place at the Valley Cemetery and most citizens participated in the procession or laying of flowers at graves. The Louis Bell Post of the Grand Army of the Republic fired a 21-gun salute, and Manchester's school children decorated soldiers' graves with flowers and presented songs and poems.
The burial grounds host some of the city's first politicians, mayors, two New Hampshire governors, Civil War soldiers, a few veterans of the Revolutionary War and at least one soldier from the French and Indian Wars.
It was at one time a favorite place for people to picnic or walk, and has since fallen into some disrepair. Family mausoleums, large headstones and towering trees make up the park now and is still a beautiful area to stroll. The Friends of the Valley Cemetery and Arboretum Group intends to restore the grounds to its once beautiful landscape.
- Follow the path straight to the small church. Once facing the church turn right and follow the path. (You will pass the Elliot tombstone 2nd on left)
- Go pass the huge EW Harrington stone grave house on the left. Keep following the path, you are now heading toward the street.
- Follow path to the left (pass the Smith tombstone, last on left)
- Keep following path until you see a chain across the pathway that says STOP. Look at the tree next to the chain on your left (there is a sign on the tree that says Eastern Hemlock)
-Look behind the tree, under the leaves and sticks you will find the letter box.
HISTORY:
Valley Street Cemetery sits on 20 acres donated by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1840. This parcel of land had a "valley" running through the middle of it, that’s why it is called Valley Cemetery. It is one of the largest cemeteries in the city.
During the city's cholera disease epidemics in the 1850's, trustees found it necessary to designate the northeast corner of the cemetery for victims of the decease. Burials were performed at night in a mass grave. By 1859 most of the plots in the Valley were sold. Pine Grove Cemetery was established because of Manchester's tremendous population increase.
Memorial Day was established in 1868 to remember the veterans of the Civil War. Solemn celebrations took place at the Valley Cemetery and most citizens participated in the procession or laying of flowers at graves. The Louis Bell Post of the Grand Army of the Republic fired a 21-gun salute, and Manchester's school children decorated soldiers' graves with flowers and presented songs and poems.
The burial grounds host some of the city's first politicians, mayors, two New Hampshire governors, Civil War soldiers, a few veterans of the Revolutionary War and at least one soldier from the French and Indian Wars.
It was at one time a favorite place for people to picnic or walk, and has since fallen into some disrepair. Family mausoleums, large headstones and towering trees make up the park now and is still a beautiful area to stroll. The Friends of the Valley Cemetery and Arboretum Group intends to restore the grounds to its once beautiful landscape.