![]() Preservation Burlington says it’s believed that although it was closed, the earliest grave sites date back to the 1900s. The graveyard closed around 1869 during a cholera epidemic in the community. The community that was there before you,” said Rayen Elkotob.Įlmwood avenue cemetery has been open since 1790. “I feel like every space you know moves to or even if you’ve grown up in it’s always really important to understand the land that was there. Over the weekend, Vermonters participating were eager to learn about the past. It’s something they haven’t done since before covid. Preservation Burlington has been getting back into the groove of doing monthly events, and guiding new and old Vermonters though the queen city’s oldest cemeteries. Maybe in a couple of years we might know more about who’s buried here,” said Lorrie Driscoll. So he is going to try to get some of them identified. You can’t really identify them much anymore. ![]() (WCAX) - “There’s so many of the markers that are completely gone.
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