"Old" Town Cemetery - Lewistown Pa - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

This is Lewistowns first cemetery, It was the only burial plot within the town until 1814. This cemetery is closed and has not been used for many decades. Although it is still maintained regularly. there are probably a few hundred graves here. Dorcas Holt Buchanan was the first white women to live in Lewistown, Her grave can be found here marked by a rough lettered, crude brown stone which is almost unreadable now. the stone was placed by two strangers early in 1835. The two Strangers went to Shade Mountain and selected two slabs, one for the headstone and another for the foot of her grave. They cut the lettering into the diamond shaped stone by hand. Her resting place would probably be unknown without their effort. More information can be found here and by going to the Lewistown Historical Society located on Monument Square in Lewistown Pa.

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Date Logged Log   12/27/2010 TheGreenBowl visited it