Mariners Museum, Nolan Trail

Outside brick border visible, but no remaining stones.

From NN Cemetery book
Today there are no headstones. They have been destroyed through the years. The following is a history, From "The History and Development of Mariners Museum Park: 1929-1936. By Dr Harold Cones, CNU, NN, VA."

Brief History:
"The deed to the property of which W Taylor Ham was executor contained an obligation to protect the family cemetery. Located on the Ham property was an historical house referred to as the "Copeland House", built sometime around 1745. The only documents bearing on the history of the house were int he will of John Gambol, which is dated 1848, and in the original deed to the House when purchased by John Gambol, abt 1823. Gambol also owned the old mill and the mill house on the Museum property. The mill house being known at the time of Museum purchase as the Harlow House, from the name of it's most recent tenant. The mill and mill house were sold by Gambol to the Causeys, who in turn sold to the Old Dominion Land Corp. After Gambol's death in 1852, his property passed to his two married daughters, Anna Ham and Henrietta Copeland, from whom the house took it's name. When the Mariner's Museum purchased the property, a clause was placed in the property transfer document which stated:

Entry of heirs and descendants of John Gambol, deceased, their servants and agents to visit the Gambol family burying ground and provide for the care, upkeep and maintenance of all of the graves therein along ways to be provided by A.M. Huntington so long as they remain. Also, within twelve months from March 19, 1930 permit disinterment and removal of all bodies now interred therein upon condition that the graves will be filled and level to protect the burying ground from erosion caused b the rising of the water by artificial means so long as the burying ground is preserved and maintained by the descendants of John Gambol.

The Museum offered the heirs the opportunity to disinter the bodies but they declined Several months after the purchase, the Museum built a protective low brick wall around the burying ground, which was located on a point of land at the very edge of the lake."