A First Settlers Cemetery
This Graveyard was moved by the US Government around 1941 to the Maplewood combined area and is the section between Maplewood and Smith’s Corner/Bean grave sites. Well-maintained. Good condition. Approx. 122 plus graves or memorials.
From Salisbury Lost by Paul S. Shaw, MD, 1995, regarding the Stevens homestead:
“Daniel Stevens, a veteran of the battle of Bunker Hill, came to Salisbury in 1768. He moved to this site in 1777. Except for several years from 1897-1919, it remained in the Stevens family until it was taken by the U.S. Government in 1941 for the creation of the Blackwater Flood Control Reservoir.
The house was destroyed, like others in the flood basin, when the U.S. took the property over for the Blackwater Dam.”
Note: This Stevens House is shown on a map near the present Sawyer Farm on the South Road towards Warner near Greenough Pond.
The list is a compilation of data from the study of tombstones by Priscilla Hammond in 1933.