Cache is a small lock and lock.
The Poor Farm Cemetery, probably used for burials during a 10 -
15 year period around 1850.
Ahira Merriam, who lived across from the cemetery and Anson
Cooley, who also lived on Silver Street, ran poor houses for the
state and town paupers.
There are at least 48 recorded burials there and it is suspected
there is 100 or more
. While it is not known exactly who is buried there, it is clear
from town records that they were “paupers”. In other
words, the sick; the old; disabled; illegitimate; abandoned or
orphaned children; African American laborers who owned no land;
alcoholics; transients; foreigners; the mentally ill and mentally
handicapped and perhaps Native Americans.
In 2002 when the cemetery became known about, the owner Dan
Dumais donated the 48 acres to The Granby Land Trust and is now
called The Doherty Road Preserve.
Now, as it was in 2002 the cemetery is overgrown and littered
with fallen trees, rotting logs and 150 plus years of forest
debris. Near the cache area is a engraved rock and a sign post.