The Phillips Family Burial Ground

The Phillips Family Burial Ground is named for the family who established it on their land. This family burial ground can be seen in the yard between Hunter Road and the former District 1 schoolhouse (5). Only a few broken, undecipherable stones still show. When the schoolhouse was built in 1880 the burial ground was already ancient and no longer used for new burials.

This burial ground represents the common practice of remote farm families setting aside land for a family burial plot.

John Phillips established the burial ground before 1780 and the total number of graves is not known. We do know that John's wife is buried here and probably most of the first few generations of the Phillips family. The family cemetery is mentioned in John Phillips' will of 1789.

Several of the still visible tombstones in the Phillips Family burial ground next to the former District 1 schoolhouse.