Wayne County MI Archives Photo Place.....The Old Burial Ground Historical Plaque July 5, 2008
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Source:             Old Burial Ground
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The Old Burial Ground Cemetery is located on Jefferson and Fifth Avenues, 
Trenton Township. (Also Known as Odd Fellow, Masonic and Walnut Street 
Cemetery).

In 1849 Giles & Sophia Truck Slocum deeded this land to be held in trust to the
Trenton Odd Fellow Lodge No. 33. In 1867 it was deeded to the Masonic Lodge, F 
& A. M. No. ?,. In 1918, the deed was transfered to Monguagon Twp. Here rest 
forty - four early pioneers, Civil War Veterans and Trenton's first doctor.
The cemetery was once larger and the grounds unfenced. Towns people objected to
children from the adjoining "South" school playing among the tombstones and 
reinterments occured in 1874 and again in 1890. In 1929, the ornate fence was
installed. Named the Odd Fellow, Masonic, and finally the Walnut Street 
Cemetery, it will always be known as the "Old Burial Ground". It is now
maintained by the City of Trenton.

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