Friends of Old Saint Mary Cemetery
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Saint Mary's Cemetery stretches forty acres just off Route 495. The old section of the cemetery dates back to the 1830's. The Friends of Old St. Mary Cemetery is a privately incorporated not for profit corporation whose focus is the preservation and development of the old cemetery.  Hundreds of old grave stones have been restored.  Many other aesthetic and practical improvements are made each year.  The group meets regularly at St. Mary Pastoral Center.  They also sponsor a number of cultural and fund raising events throughout the year.

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Text Box: FAMINE MEMORIAL PROJECT BEGINS Over the past five and a half years, The Friends have worked very hard to personally raise all the funds for their work in the old cemetery. We have picked up and repaired over 1,000 monuments. This summer that phase of our work will be completed. We have obtained stones for Civil War veterans in unmarked graves; repaired portions of the lovely Irish wall, which in part surrounds the old cemetery; have installed lighting, installed a fence and shrubs to prohibit disposal of trash; and placed a lovely sign of Milford pink granite at the main entrance of the Old Cemetery. Over 350 historic marble monuments have been professionally cleaned by us, a project which is on-going by the Friends members volunteering their Saturdays. We have also begun work on resetting of the granite curbed lots, saved 200 year-old maple trees, and begun work on gravel roadways. These projects will continue over the next two and one--half years and   move into their final phases. Now we are looking forward to a memorial to honor those Irish immigrants belonging to each of us whose courage and ever-faithful beliefs built Saint Mary’s two churches, schools, cemeteries and so much more. We hope that everyone of Irish Heritage will become a part of honoring our ancestors through this memorial It will, we hope, forever serve as a reminder for generations to come of a people and past that must never be forgotten.        Barbara A. Minnehan, President