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LINCOLN – Roughly 30 years ago, the gravestone of one David Lapham was said to have been confiscated from a Boston College dormitory, and since then, the stone has lived

Andrew Grover and others want to make sure a historical cemetery he rediscovered on a hike gets proper recognition.

Thanks to the efforts of dedicated volunteers, many local cemeteries that were deemed to be missing or lost have been recovered in the last decade, but the effort to find

A cemetery long-considered to be lost or destroyed indefinitely was re-discovered in North Providence last month, raising questions about the existence of other “missing” cemeteries in the Blackstone Valley.

NORTH PROVIDENCE – These burial grounds, marked in the Rhode Island cemetery database as NP12, or the Hezekiah Olney Farm Lot, seemed to have been lost. For the last 10

WOONSOCKET – Gregory Duhamel called to his youngest child as he stood on the other side of an overgrown area full of grass, poison ivy, and uneven hills that anyone

CUMBERLAND – New Cumberland resident Lizzie Havoc is example A of a person who took what the pandemic handed her and ran with it, shifting her bartending skills mixing ingredients

5/4/2021 Lombardi says town will keep up with newly revived cemetery The newly uncovered Peach Hill Cemetery off Smith Street in North Providence. (Breeze photo by Ethan Shorey) NORTH PROVIDENCE – Volunteers put in most of the heavy labor to clear away decades of overgrowth from the Peach Hill Cemetery this month, and Mayor Charles Lombardi is now pledging that the town will help take it from here. The town has historically not been great with maintaining its old cemeteries, but Lombardi said...

4/27/2021 Volunteers uncover NP history at cemetery Volunteers pose for a group shot midway through the first modern cleanup of Peach Hill Cemetery on Peach Hill Avenue off Smith Street last Saturday. At right is D’Nina Kemper, with her son Caleb, who purchased the home in front of the cemetery last October and said she was so happy to see people improving it. (Breeze photos by Ethan Shorey) Peach Hill Cemetery contains headstones of town’s founding families NORTH PROVIDENCE – Several of...

Volunteers restore forgotten cemetery Volunteers work to clear debris from two historic cemeteries in Lincoln. The burial lots have been cut-off from access and forgotten to time. (Breeze photos by Nicole Dotzenrod) LINCOLN – Standing in the middle of a highway cloverleaf, a group of local residents laid down their shovels, shears and power tools and bowed their heads in prayer. They were about to set foot on a safari of sorts, crossing an off-ramp, trekking carefully along the side of the h...