Thursday, December 21, 2006

Burial Ground

























The picture above is from a site surrounded by townhomes, a pool, and Little River Elementary School. It is a fenced in cemetery site atop a hill known locally as Hutchison Hill, after a family who owned a lot of land in the area in the past. Notice that the neighborhood is not ecident at all in this old aerial. But go look up the site located along Hyland Hills St. on google Maps and you'll see this old burial ground is totally surrounded by suburban sprawl.
coordinates: 38.89715N
77.49875W
Later, a zoomed image of the aerial showing all the land cleared for development except this cemetery site.
JPEG maps on blogger lose A LOT of resolution. This is not an ideal place to post maps. You can barely see the red point along 50 where the Hess station is.
Elevation at the cemetery is 361 feet. As the crow flies, it is 1.52 miles from Route 50.

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