Most people donât realize thereâs a cemetery tucked behind a grove of trees and overgrown brush off Shelburne Road, but they might notice it now.
On Saturday, April 24, community members, Rotarians and local scouts gathered together to clear brush and pick up trash at Shelburne Cemetery, one of South Burlingtonâs two cemeteries.
City sexton and clerk Donna Kinville said about 115 people are buried at the cemetery, with the most recent laid to rest in 2020. Earlier stones date back to the 1800s.
The cemetery was deeded to the town of Burlington in 1833 and became South Burlingtonâs when the city was created in 1865.