Cemetery walk

[kickaha]

Took a walk around the Sparta Cemetery tonight on the way home. It's the oldest cemetery in Ossining, right on the border (or over, depending on which map you look at) of Scarborough. Some very nice, very neat marker stones in there. The oldest few are brown, and look more like sandstone, but have proven more durable than the marble ones that start appearing in the 1780s. (In fact, it looks an awful lot like the stone used in... brownstone townhouses. Hmm.) There was a brick walled area (wall about 2.5' high) that had some of the oldest markers on it, late 1760s to early 1770s. One of the markers was missing, and the bricks were shattered. Curious, I got closer and found a plaque that read (roughly):

The marker for Who de Who was pierced by a cannonball shot from the British warship H.M.S. Fuddernutter, Umpteenth day of Whenever, 1780. This plaque erected 1830.

Okay, that's kinda cool. Here's the site:


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Zoom out a bit to see the river just to the west.

Comments

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Oddly, during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the HMS Fuddernutter was more famous for the shore-based items of questionable or no military value which it destroyed than for its ship-to-ship engagements. There was a church in Chesapeake, VA, which Captain Smythe-Boroughs apparently mistook for a shore battery, a laundry outside of New Bedford, and if I'm remembering correctly, a barbershop in Portsmouth largely frequented by free men of color.

(Saw an interesting bit on The History Channel just the other day. Funny that you ran into another item the Fuddernutter destroyed, even if it was relatively minor.)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

You're a loon.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

You keep saying that to me. Are you under the impression that the statement conveys some sort of information to the reader? Which is to say, duh.

On a semi-related note, I'd never seen an actual loon before my trip to Vermont this fall. Sadly, every picture I took of them sucked; I really could have used my new lens (which has shipped, by the way) then. :/

Oh, well. Gonna have it for next time.