. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. iel B. Wesson,president; James Kirkham, treasurer: Gideon Wells, clerk. It may beadded that Mr. Wes-son, Mr. Kirkham, andMr. Sackett also owna tract of more heavilyforested land on theopposite side of theBay Road, of morethan 100 acres, throughwhich they have hadroads cut, and proposeto maintain it as a wildpark, open to the pub-lic, under the name ofEdgewood. Maplewood Ceme-tery, which was organ-ized 1882, is situatedin the eastern part ofthe city, on the roadfrom Indian-Orchardstation to Six
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. iel B. Wesson,president; James Kirkham, treasurer: Gideon Wells, clerk. It may beadded that Mr. Wes-son, Mr. Kirkham, andMr. Sackett also owna tract of more heavilyforested land on theopposite side of theBay Road, of morethan 100 acres, throughwhich they have hadroads cut, and proposeto maintain it as a wildpark, open to the pub-lic, under the name ofEdgewood. Maplewood Ceme-tery, which was organ-ized 1882, is situatedin the eastern part ofthe city, on the roadfrom Indian-Orchardstation to SixteenAcres. The old part,which contains three-fifths of an acre, wasopened Oct. 3, 1816; the new pari, adjoining the old. contains one acre, andwas opened April 20, 1882, in connection with the old, under the name olthe Maplewood Cemetery, the old part having upon that date been votedby the proprietors into the control of the Maplewood Cemetery Association. Local Burial-grounds. — There are several of these in the city, some ofwhich are not much used now: such as. the Methodist Burying-ground on. Dr. Holland Monument, Springfield Cemetery. 2 3° KINGS HAND POO A OF SPRINGFIELD. Union Street, the burial-place connected with the Methodist-Episcopal churchonce located there, which has been incorporated into the Springfield Ceme-tery; the Baptist Burying-ground, on Cherry Street, in the vicinity of whichonce stood a Baptist church ; another on Sumner Avenue, Long Hill, west-
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