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Getchell Cemetery

Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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  • Merriconeag Rd, Brunswick Landing, (East) Brunswick
    Brunswick, Maine, USA

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aka" Gatchell Cemetery" and "Old New Meadows Cemetery"
This cemetery is in East Brunswick on land that was formerly part of the Naval Air Station, now Brunswick Landing. It is very near New Meadows Cemetery.

Currently [2012], the cemetery is surrounded by a barbed wire fence. It's surrounded on all 4 sides by woods and there are several trees inside the cemetery, two of which have sunken and broken granite stones around them. The cemetery is on a piece of high ground that slopes down sharply at the rear, right and past the road at the front and overlooks a brook. Some headstones are slate; many are granite. Most of the graves with legible headstones also have initialed footstones. A great many stones are blank. Some have probably eroded over time, while others are sunken so deeply that the inscriptions may be underground. It's clear by depressions in the ground that some graves are unmarked. In 2001 there were about 26 legible headstones with dates ranging from 1771 to 1890, 25 broken, blank or partially sunken stones, and 17 footstones.

Records from the collection of Bernice Douglas written in 1939 describe it:
Situated on east side of Merriconeag Road (formerly Gatchell's Mills Road) at foot of field now owned by John Gatchell, surrounded by woods, and bounded on east by woodlot owned by Alonzo Totman. Said to have been first used when the settlers were infear of Indians and so graves were unmarked. Field stones on ground unmarked in places. Badly neglected. [handwritten note adds: said to be the burial place of 200 settlers.]

In 2011, the Pejepscot Genealogical Society prepared a site map and key of this burying place, ...
aka" Gatchell Cemetery" and "Old New Meadows Cemetery"
This cemetery is in East Brunswick on land that was formerly part of the Naval Air Station, now Brunswick Landing. It is very near New Meadows Cemetery.

Currently [2012], the cemetery is surrounded by a barbed wire fence. It's surrounded on all 4 sides by woods and there are several trees inside the cemetery, two of which have sunken and broken granite stones around them. The cemetery is on a piece of high ground that slopes down sharply at the rear, right and past the road at the front and overlooks a brook. Some headstones are slate; many are granite. Most of the graves with legible headstones also have initialed footstones. A great many stones are blank. Some have probably eroded over time, while others are sunken so deeply that the inscriptions may be underground. It's clear by depressions in the ground that some graves are unmarked. In 2001 there were about 26 legible headstones with dates ranging from 1771 to 1890, 25 broken, blank or partially sunken stones, and 17 footstones.

Records from the collection of Bernice Douglas written in 1939 describe it:
Situated on east side of Merriconeag Road (formerly Gatchell's Mills Road) at foot of field now owned by John Gatchell, surrounded by woods, and bounded on east by woodlot owned by Alonzo Totman. Said to have been first used when the settlers were infear of Indians and so graves were unmarked. Field stones on ground unmarked in places. Badly neglected. [handwritten note adds: said to be the burial place of 200 settlers.]

In 2011, the Pejepscot Genealogical Society prepared a site map and key of this burying place, ...

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