The cemetery on Church Road

Wisconsin · United States · Cemetery

A long drive out and easy to miss, at the end of a dead end road. Locals say it was a children's burial ground and that something happened to it.

This cemetery near Portage, Wisconsin takes a long drive to reach and is easy to miss. The road is a dead end and the burial ground sits almost at the far end of it.

Visitors were told by local people that it had been a cemetery for infants and children, and that something happened to it afterwards.

A burial ground given over almost entirely to children is not unusual for the period, and it is the single most affecting kind of site in this whole collection. Infant mortality before the twentieth century meant that a rural parish could fill a plot with small graves within a generation.

What is reported there follows from that.

Columbia County is farm country and the roads out to these places have not changed much.

It is a burial ground and should be treated as one.

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Where is The cemetery on Church Road located?

The cemetery on Church Road is in Wisconsin, United States.