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Trust To Re-Open Quaker Graveyard PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
By Emily Dupuis
The Sun Staff

WESTERLY - A Quaker burial ground located on the grounds of the town's first meeting house is expected later this month to be officially designated as an educational and historic site by local land trust officials.
Westerly Land Trust officials announced this week they have scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. on June 12 at the Religious Society of Friends, or Quaker, burial ground.

The roughly one-third acre parcel is located off the southbound side of Route 1 just west of the Dunn's Corners intersection and across the street from Dunn's Corners Community Church.

Representatives from state and local government, Greater Westerly-Pawcatuck Chamber of Commerce, South County Tourism Council, Westerly Quaker Meeting, Westerly Historical Society, Westerly Land Trust and the public have been invited to attend.

The land trust acquired the knoll in November 1999 and officials have since cleared and cleaned the site, surrounded by a stone wall and dotted with trees and whole and partial headstones.

"It was kind of an unloved, under-maintained, let's say neglected, burial ground in our town," said land trust board member Richard Holliday on Friday.

Since the acquisition, officials planned to manage the burial ground and promote it as part of the local history and tourism industry.

Holliday said they want to make residents and visitors aware of the late-18th-century parcel, the only burial ground out of the land trust's 17 or 18 sites.

"We hope a number of people come to learn about the Quaker activity," he added. "We have a lot of history here. But we don't have a lot of signs (explaining that history)... And here's one."

At the upcoming ceremony, representatives from the non-profit plan to unveil an educational sign explaining the role of early Quakers in early Westerly and Rhode Island.

For several decades in the 1700s, more than half of Rhode Island's population was comprised of members of the Religious Society of Friends.

The project was made possible by grants from the Rhode Island Foundation, Preserve Rhode Island, Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund and the Westerly Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quakers).

This year has been active for the land trust, a non-profit committed to preserving local open space and natural resources.

Land trust officials earlier this week announced the purchase of two parcels along the Pawcatuck River that add 45 acres to the 495-acre Grills Preserve.

The acquisition was part of the Pawcatuck River Corridor Project, under which the land trust had previously acquired six other parcels - around 700 acres - along the river.

Last month, the land trust also acquired more than 6 acres located near the intersection of Winnapaug and Airport roads and stretching behind Thorp & Trainer Insurance to the Rotary Park playground. That acquisition was part of the trust's Mastuxet Brook Greenway Project.

The group currently holds some downtown Westerly properties, recently acquiring the former Industrial Bank building on lower High Street, the former downtown Shell Service Station at 61 Main St. and the former United Theater on Canal Street with backing from financier Charles Royce through the Royce Family Foundation.


http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2006/06/04/news/news3.txt
 
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