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The Day - Buried History: Discovering the Gorton family near Parkway South - News from southeastern Connecticut


Gorton Cemetery in Waterford. (photo submitted)
Published February 18. 2021 12:01AM 
Eileen Olynciw, Special to The Times
Alert drivers may wonder about the small burial ground squeezed onto a narrow, grassy divider between the fast-moving traffic of I-95 North and Parkway South across from Lowes.
At one time, the Gorton Family Burial Ground lay on an unpaved country lane that wound its way up and down the hills from New London to Lyme.
Passersby hurrying along in the early 19th century unpaved roadway may have noticed fresh graves in the small enclosure in the corner of a grassy field as each grave was added to those of the Gorton family. ....

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