Cemetery walk
Apr. 16th, 2008 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickahaTook 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.
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:
View Larger Map
Zoom out a bit to see the river just to the west.