Benton County Poor Farm Cemetery in Center Township, Indiana

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Get directions S County Road 400 E
Center Township, Indiana 47944 United States

Coordinates: 40.58419, -87.24913
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GPS Cords: 40.58419, -87.24913

Cemetery Notes: No stones at this cemetery. Until recently it was a cornfield, but once it was discovered - the Boy Scouts build the fence to protect it, and now 3 wooden crosses can be seen from the road.

The cemetery is located in Center Township (SE quadrant of the SW quadrant of the SE quadrant of Section 30 Township 25N Range 7W) about 600 feet west of S County Road 400 E about 0.5 miles north of E County Road 200 S.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 3, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2007), gives the primary cemetery name as County Home Cemetery.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-04-1 (County Home).