Palmerston Cemetery in Pugwash, Nova Scotia

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Coordinates: 45.84617, -63.66153
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The land which is now Palmerston Cemetery was once the site of the Baptist Church and a small Baptist cemetery. In 1852, the Baptist Church moved to its present site across the Pugwash River. A group of citizens bought the land the Baptists had previously occupied and an adjacent lot for a non-denominational cemetery for the village of Pugwash. There is no known record of the first Baptists who were buried there, nor of those subsequently buried until the late 19th century.

Recently, a map was found in the North Cumberland Historical Society of the Willow Grove Cemetery. Having never heard of Willow Grove Cemetery, we quickly ascertained that it was Cumberland County people named in it. It showed the cemetery as being next to a lobster factory and across the river from Pugwash with land set aside for a rail line. It was, in fact, the site of the present Palmerston Cemetery.