Lower Burying Ground

2013.5.4.24a-b

2013.5.4.24a-b

Name/Title

Lower Burying Ground

Entry/Object ID

2013.5.4.24a-b

Description

Two photographs found on page 24 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side." Photograph a is of the gate and wall of the Lower Burying Ground (Hood Cemetery), erected after 1850 through the lagacy of William Hood. Photograph b is of two stones in a wall on East Logan Street and Germantown Avenue. The stones are said to be 10 inches square. The stone on the left is engrave, "Memen - doM[?]or[?]y." The stone on the right carries a raised skull and cross-bones.

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection