Thirty Oak Hill High School students spent their Halloween morning digging up long-buried gravestones and roping off a 19th-century graveyard.
At the request of the Maine Old Cemetery Association, the Future Business Leaders of America spent four hours Friday morning uncovering the Hewey Cemetery, a small graveyard set in a cow pasture on the Hurd Farm. The headstones, some more than 150 years old, were buried deep in the soil. The cemetery was completely unmarked.
The teenagers dug up the old headstones and then roped off the cemetery. They plan to return in the spring to fix any broken headstones and to erect a more permanent fence around the site.
The group believes the graveyard was the Hewey Family Cemetery. The students found nine of the 12 plots that were believed to be there.
The Oak Hill High School Future Business Leaders of America usually spends about 250 hours in community projects every year.
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