Hartford’s Old North Cemetery
Posted on Tuesday, October 21 2008 by Heather Brandon
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Heather Brandon was raised in Pittsburgh, and now lives in Hartford. Urban Compass focuses on Hartford and formerly Springfield, MA. It has appeared at MassLive.com, ValleyAdvocate.com, and as a weekly column in the Valley Advocate.
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Jeff http://ldopa.net
October 21st, 2008 at 2:44 pmExcellent pics! I can’t wait to steal them and pass them off as my own.
LOLOLO
Dan Russell http://www.flawlesswalrus.com
October 21st, 2008 at 4:25 pmDo you plan on photoshopping yourself many times over in the shots like @JamesPlankton ‘s cemetery photos?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7909366@N04/tags/cemetery/
Heather Brandon http://urbancompass.net
October 21st, 2008 at 4:56 pmJeff, haha.
Dan, when it comes to cemetery photo shoots, I’m unambitious and dull compared to @JamesPlankton.
Real Hartford » City Council Agenda http://ctlocalpolitics.net/realhartford/2008/10/23/city-council-agenda/
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:37 am[...] Urban Compass for cemetery photos. 14. OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET COMMITTEE, with accompanying [...]
Hartford Watcher
October 24th, 2008 at 8:14 amThese are great photos. I am sure that you know that only a few weeks ago the cemetery was a bleak, overgrown, desolate eyesore. The United Way sponsored a Day of Caring for local organizations in cooperation with the Knox Foundation to clean up another one of the City’s overlooked treasures. I have many photos of the “before” that are no so attractive.
The City of Hartford will undoubtedly let the bucolic scene deteriorate. It’s what they are good at.
Heather Brandon http://urbancompass.net
October 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pmThanks Hartford Watcher. I didn’t know the details about the condition of the cemetery, but knew the city was making an effort and there is a lot to the story as you indicate. The place could really benefit from care with attention to detail. It’s being vandalized, needs protection and repair, not just an occasional mow (although that’s a step in the right direction).
Are you able to share the before photos? Let me know if so, I’d like to share those with any interested readers.
cathy
July 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pmI was wondering WHEN these pictures were taken? Because I was IN this cemetary yesterday, July 24, 2009 and it is beyond discusting! It’s horribly overgrown with weeds and brush as tall as my car! This is such a historic cemetary, and NOBODY maintains it? I find it discusting and discusting that you have these MISSLEADING pictures on the internet. If anyone wants to see what it looks like now, email me because I have pictures from yesterday. It’s discusting! How disrespectful to the famous, and not famous PEOPLE who lived, and died in Hartford. I have an Unlcle, who was 8 years old when he died ( yes before I was born) who is buried here and I cannot find him! the weeds are all about 5 feet tall! Nobody can EVER find their loved one in here! Something needs to be done and these pictures are NOT what this Once beautiful historic Cemetary looks like today. So sad……….
Cathy
Heather Brandon http://urbancompass.net
July 26th, 2009 at 6:00 pmThese pictures were taken on Sunday, October 19, 2008, just after an effort had been made to clean up this often-neglected and important place.
Anne Kaufman
May 14th, 2010 at 8:26 pmGreat pics! Say, is there anyone to contact who could locate a grave or tell me where to look? I’m visiting May 24-25, 2010 and will be looking for Noah Washburn (1814) and his wife Bathsheba Sexton Washburn (1829). Thanks!
Stephen Schwartz
June 24th, 2010 at 10:40 pmI have great great great great grandparents buried in Old North Cemetery in Hartford and I am trying to find out where in the cemetery they are buried. I know from a family genealogy that they have grave markers, although, the information above makes me concerned over the care and condition of the markers. The names of my ancestors are David Shepard 6 Mar 1774 – 25 Nov 1840 and Sarah (nee Cone) Shepard 16 Dec 1780 – 19 May 1857. I live in Chicago, but plan to visit Hartford to do some family ancestry research later this year. If anyone can point me in the right direction on how to go about locating my ancestors’ graves, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!
Kat
August 11th, 2010 at 3:09 pmStephen, you can look around the graveyard, your ancestors MAY be in the front where a lot of the older stones are. However, if they are broken or buried in weeds, it’s going to be tough. and forget about finding the RECORDS NOBODY in the whole city of Hartfor seems to have the records of who is buried WHERE..
auughh
Whitney http://www.worthystyle.com
December 11th, 2011 at 7:00 pmI am wondering if anyone has been here recently? I have a significanly large family plot in the back corner uphill – the BRANDT section with a huge marker stone covered in engraved ivy. We all live in the deep South now and hope everything is OK up there!