PAGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Kennel Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Kennel graveyard:
                  1936 Oct. 24
                  Research made by Cannie C. Morris

Cemetery Location:  2.5 miles northwest of Grove Hill, Virginia, and about 500 
                    yards south of the old Catherine Furnace site.
                    Page County, Virginia


DATE:

1845.

OWNERS:

United States Government
George Washington National Forest

DESCRIPTION:

It is in very bad condition, grown up in trees and bushes; in fact you can 
hardly tell where it was.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

It was started about 1845 by the man that worked at Catherine Furnace.  Old 
slaves were brought over from east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, over around 
Gordonsville, to work at the furnace and would die and they would be buried 
here.  Bob Kennel, who operated a boarding house at the furnace, and his family 
died and were buried here although there are very few markers and no 
inscriptions at all on the graves.




SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mr. Gene Waters, 75 years of age
            Grove Hill, Virginia

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