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Lighthouse Tribe Cemetery

Kenneth L. Feder states in his section on the Lighthouse Cemetery, that there is estimated guesses on how many graves are in the cemetery, estimates range from 50 to 200 (Page 143).
He says on Page 144 he says, "...93 possible grave markers were located." (See map below).
"The fence..." (metioned below and shown on the map below), "...was erected by the Civilian Conservation Corps, which certainly was not the creator of a cemetery that William Wallace Lee already had described as early as 1868. None of the fence remains today, but our cemetery crew did find a shallow trench around almost the entire graveyard. In the trench were the rotted remains of fence posts. The location of the trench has been included on the cemetery map.

SOURCE: Feder, Kenneth L., A Village of Outcasts: Historical Archaeology and Documentary Research at the Lighthouse Site, (Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, California---1994)Pg 143-145.
Lee, William Wallace, Barkhamsted, CT and its centennial 1879, (Meriden, CT: Republican Steam Print, 1881), Page 43.

Photo 1

SOURCE: Feder, Kenneth L., A Village of Outcasts: Historical Archaeology and Documentary Research at the Lighthouse Site, (Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, California---1994)Pg 146.






Photo 2

A photograph taken in the 1930s of the Lighthouse cemetery. A sign that was hung from the fence read:

THESE ARE THE GRAVES
OF THE INDIANS
WHO LIVED HERE FOR OVER A CENTURY,
BEGINNING ABOUT 1740.
DO NOT DISTURB THESE GRAVES
NO IMPLEMENTS ARE BURIED HERE.

SOURCE: Mills, Lewis Sprauge, The Legend of Barkhamsted Light House (Lewis Sprauge Mill, publisher. Barkhamsted, CT)Pg 109.






Photo 3

"Map of the Lighthouse cemetery. The locations of more than 90 stones are indicated. Many of these were actual headstones, some likely were footstones, and some may simply be talus from the adjaccent slope. There likely were a minimum of 50 graves in the Lighthouse cemetery (Map by: R. Klonis Dardzienski)."

Quoted & SOURCE: Feder, Kenneth L., A Village of Outcasts: Historical Archaeology and Documentary Research at the Lighthouse Site, (Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, California---1994)Pg 145.






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