A cemetery long-considered to be lost or destroyed indefinitely was re-discovered in North Providence last month, raising questions about the existence of other “missing” cemeteries in the Blackstone Valley.
WOONSOCKET – On Sept. 18, a drunk driver with no insurance coverage crashed through the gates at Cook Cemetery on Mendon Road. According to the police report, the driver had
NORTH PROVIDENCE – These burial grounds, marked in the Rhode Island cemetery database as NP12, or the Hezekiah Olney Farm Lot, seemed to have been lost. For the last 10
WOONSOCKET – Gregory Duhamel called to his youngest child as he stood on the other side of an overgrown area full of grass, poison ivy, and uneven hills that anyone
LINCOLN — The Blackstone Valley Historical Society, headquartered in Lincoln, is opening its doors to the public for its first program of the year: a presentation by historian Jim Bailey