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Reedville Cemetery

Lowville, Lewis County, New York, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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Thank you to Anne Cady's research
REEDVILLE is one of the towns that was taken over and abandoned when Pine Camp (now Fort Drum) went through a major expansion in 1941. From an online source:

Pine Camp had been picked for a major expansion and an additional seventy-five thousand acres of land (some say 84,000) were purchased by the US Government. By Labor Day of 1941 one hundred tracts of land had been taken over. Five hundred twenty-five families were displaced, five villages were eliminated (LaRaysville, Sterlingville, Lewisburg [named Sterlingbush for awhile], North Wilna and Woods Mills) as well as smaller settlements (Slocumville, Reedville, Nauvoo, Sterlingburgh, Doolins Crossing, East Antwerp, Hubbard Crossing, Alpina, and Rockwell Creek), some others were reduced to a portion of their size, three thousand buildings; including twenty-four schools, six churches and a post office were abandoned (these are the so-called "Lost Villages" of Fort Drum).

There are between 9 and 13 cemeteries that are now inaccessible because they are on the base. The army maintains them, but visits have to be arranged with the army and escort has to be provided. On Memorial day each year they use to provide excursions to the cemeteries, but I don't know if they still do that.

I don't know much about the cemeteries themselves unfortunately, other than the fact that most are still there.






Thank you to Anne Cady's research
REEDVILLE is one of the towns that was taken over and abandoned when Pine Camp (now Fort Drum) went through a major expansion in 1941. From an online source:

Pine Camp had been picked for a major expansion and an additional seventy-five thousand acres of land (some say 84,000) were purchased by the US Government. By Labor Day of 1941 one hundred tracts of land had been taken over. Five hundred twenty-five families were displaced, five villages were eliminated (LaRaysville, Sterlingville, Lewisburg [named Sterlingbush for awhile], North Wilna and Woods Mills) as well as smaller settlements (Slocumville, Reedville, Nauvoo, Sterlingburgh, Doolins Crossing, East Antwerp, Hubbard Crossing, Alpina, and Rockwell Creek), some others were reduced to a portion of their size, three thousand buildings; including twenty-four schools, six churches and a post office were abandoned (these are the so-called "Lost Villages" of Fort Drum).

There are between 9 and 13 cemeteries that are now inaccessible because they are on the base. The army maintains them, but visits have to be arranged with the army and escort has to be provided. On Memorial day each year they use to provide excursions to the cemeteries, but I don't know if they still do that.

I don't know much about the cemeteries themselves unfortunately, other than the fact that most are still there.






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