Johnstown Town Board member fights for abandoned cemetery’s restoration | The Daily Gazette
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TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN – When Town Board member Tim Rizzo walks through the abandoned rural cemetery near the intersection of Route 67 and Route 334 he said he experiences feelings of frustration and confusion.
“We have no idea what’s even here,” Rizzo said with the sound of bitterness in his voice.
Known as the “Gross Cemetery” or sometimes as the “Boshart Cemetery,” the piece of land was used as a grave yard by a now long gone Lutheran Church in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is one of at least 16 rural cemeteries owned by the town of Johnstown, many of them in various states of disrepair.