Oak Orchards Cemetery
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Oak Orchards Cemetery

Verona, Oneida County, New York, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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This cemetery is located off Wood Creek Road in the town of Verona. The grounds are maintained and the area is clear of brush and weeds. There appears to be over 50 graves here, some marked by field stones, and many sunken areas indicating a grave but no marker. All the stones found are lying on the ground, most of them broken.

In 1793 the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company (1792-1820) - NY's first Canal Company - cut thru the neck of a meander along the West side of the hill, one of thirteen such canals dug along Wood Creek to shorten the distance between Rome and Oneida Lake.

The Western Inland Lock Navigation Company built a locktenders house here in 1802 to serve a proposed wooden lock that was never built, disturbing the 1797 grave of the infant child of Celeste, the first settler burial in Verona.

During the latter half of the nineteenth century a Burying Ground was established here as settlement expanded and a sawmill complex was built at the North edge of the hill. Both were later reduced to ruins and lost to memory until rediscovered in 1990 by a State Museum researcher working with the Town Historian. This historic site is being preserved by the Verona Historical Association.

According to D. E. Wager's Oneida County History, 1896, Frenchman LaWhiten de Wardenon and his wife Celeste, were the first settlers in the area, settling at Oak Orchards in 1796/97. A child was born to them who died in 1797, being the first death in the town. Lacking wood to build a casket, the infant was buried in a cradle.





This cemetery is located off Wood Creek Road in the town of Verona. The grounds are maintained and the area is clear of brush and weeds. There appears to be over 50 graves here, some marked by field stones, and many sunken areas indicating a grave but no marker. All the stones found are lying on the ground, most of them broken.

In 1793 the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company (1792-1820) - NY's first Canal Company - cut thru the neck of a meander along the West side of the hill, one of thirteen such canals dug along Wood Creek to shorten the distance between Rome and Oneida Lake.

The Western Inland Lock Navigation Company built a locktenders house here in 1802 to serve a proposed wooden lock that was never built, disturbing the 1797 grave of the infant child of Celeste, the first settler burial in Verona.

During the latter half of the nineteenth century a Burying Ground was established here as settlement expanded and a sawmill complex was built at the North edge of the hill. Both were later reduced to ruins and lost to memory until rediscovered in 1990 by a State Museum researcher working with the Town Historian. This historic site is being preserved by the Verona Historical Association.

According to D. E. Wager's Oneida County History, 1896, Frenchman LaWhiten de Wardenon and his wife Celeste, were the first settlers in the area, settling at Oak Orchards in 1796/97. A child was born to them who died in 1797, being the first death in the town. Lacking wood to build a casket, the infant was buried in a cradle.





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