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Crowbar Point Cemetery |
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Also known as: Town of Ulysses, Tompkins County, NY. As the tombstones are not visible from the road, some additional landmarks are in order. If you stand at West Side Gas and Grocery (on the west side of Route 89, near the Garrett Road intersection), look across the highway. You will look across a field of grass to a line of trees. The cemetery lies just inside that line of trees. As you approach, you will see a section of trees which juts out toward you with a small opening. Inside that opening lies the cemetery. The cemetery is approximately 25 yards square. Many stones were never marked or are faded to the point that inscriptions are no longer visible. Most stones are toppled and broken. Cemetery is inactive. |
All photographs by Lara Fletcher (larger photo) |
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History:
Crowbar Point Cemetery is named after the piece of land on which it sits (called Crowbar Point by local fishermen) which juts into the Cayuga Lake. It is also referred to as Carmen Cemetery. According to Steve Weaver - owner of the West Shore Gas and Grocery since 1965 - a map of the area dated approximately 1853 labels this land as being owned by the Carman family. Later the land was owned by Liberty Hyde Bailey. Currently, the land is privately owned by Cheryl Fletcher who gives permission for people to carefully and respectfully enter the cemetery.
Inscriptions are from the first stone encountered when entering the clearing (on the west end of the cemetery) and proceed in a circle to the right (south).
Thank you Lara Fletcher for your donation of this cemetery record and the accompanying photographs.
Thank you Karen Dickson for forwarding this record on to us.
You are our
visitor since December 14, 2004.
(Originally created June 14, 2000.)
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