![]() Those foolish enough to walk the perimeter of the graveyard seven times under the light of the full moon will perish before sunrise hunted down by the white werewolf. Invoking the cemetery’s curse is devilishly simple. It’s as if it was built to keep people out …or something inside. Legend says it’s cursed. The only way in is to scale the crumbling stone boundary. Oddly enough, it has no gate or entrance. A four-foot-tall masonry wall encircles this small and nearly forgotten two-centuries-old cemetery. It is here along Old River Road that you will find Shock Graveyard. In East Donegal Township near the Susquehanna River is the village of Rowenna. It should say cemetery since there is no church. Tschantz Cemetery is the final resting place for several of Lancaster’s first settlers and one of the County’s oldest cemeteries in the county. If you would like to learn more about various cemeteries and graveyards from around Lancaster County, check out these posts. Still, others are just headstones of plain rock to mark the passage of their (perhaps more youthful) inhabitants. Several tombstones are so degraded they are nearly impossible to read. It is challenging to know how many people are buried in this graveyard. ![]() Many of the headstones are written in German. It has 27 marked graves from the Steman, Eshleman, Lingerfelter, Schenck, and Warfel families. Benedict Eshleman Cemetery hidden deep in the forests of Conestoga Township. It is one of Lancaster County’s older cemeteries. It originally applied to Roman catacombs.īelow is the image of the Benedict Eshleman Cemetery, also known as the Eshleman Family graveyard. It comes from the Greek word koimeterion, meaning bedroom or resting place. On the other hand, a cemetery is land designated as a burial ground, not attached to a church. The graveyard at Colemanville United Methodist in Conestoga Township. Click here to learn more about the deadliest accident in Lancaster County history. This photo was taken on June 12, 1906, at the funeral for the 11 men who died in the nearby Bausman Hollow dynamite factory explosion. The image below shows the graveyard at Colemanville United Methodist. But you might be surprised to know that there is a subtle difference between the two.Ī graveyard is a burial ground within a churchyard or adjacent to a church. Both are used to describe the place where people are buried. Today, we use the terms graveyard and cemetery interchangeably. ![]() Good question! Elizabeth King’s 1732 gravestone located in Chestnut Level Cemetery Graveyard vs. In a recent post about Lancaster County’s oldest tombstone, a reader asked what’s the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery.
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