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Laconia State School Cemetery

Also known as Chemung Cemetery

Meredith, Belknap County, New Hampshire, USA

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Get directions Chemung Road
Meredith, New Hampshire 03253 United States

Coordinates: 43.60530, -71.55034
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The Laconia State Cemetery was established for the burial of residents of the Laconia State School.

Originally named The New Hampshire School for the Feebleminded, later renamed The Laconia State School, from its initial beginnings in the early 1900's until its closure in 1991. The Laconia institution was similar to other such places during a time when people who were branded and stigmatized as feebleminded, deficient, or disabled, and dangerous to society, were banished to a life of isolation and total segregation.

Over the years some residents were buried in unmarked graves at random locations near the school before this cemetery was opened in 1941. As before, the burials were unmarked graves until the parents organized and asked that all the unmarked graves be identified. In 1976, marked gravestones, purchased by the parents, were laid over each of the graves.

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