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Cemetery Trustees say Quaker Cemetery is now town property after volunteer cleanup and donated survey
Summary
Cemetery Trustees reported the Quaker Cemetery on South Road was confirmed as town property after volunteers cleaned the site and Lavalle Associates donated a boundary survey; trustees received written permission from New England Quakers to maintain the site.
The Cemetery Trustees told the Select Board that the Quaker Cemetery on South Road has been confirmed as town property and that volunteers completed a cleanup there.
"In April of 1999, that land actually was given to the town of Brentwood. It is town property," Jim Hazard, chair of the Cemetery Trustees, said, explaining the trustees' research and recent outreach to Quaker organizations. Hazard said Kathleen Newton of the New England Quakers attended a trustees' meeting and gave written permission to allow respectful town maintenance of the site.
Surveyors Lavalle Associates conducted boundary work at no charge, Hazard said, and verified granite markers and a roughly 100-by-100-foot cemetery parcel. Volunteers from the Historic Society, Cemetery Trustees and highway department participated in the cleanup and will coordinate placement of a historic-society sign once the area is ready.
Hazard said maintenance of the site will fall under the town's cemetery maintenance CRF and thanked volunteers and Lavalle Associates for their donation of survey work.
The trustees said they will continue work to ensure the site is safely accessible and appropriately signed for future visitors.
