Bolingbrook 10-25-12

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Our Village, Our News

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Vol. 6 No. 15

Cemetery links

history, Halloween Boardman Cemetery is one of the oldest in Will County By Laura Katauskas Staff Reporter

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hosts in the graveyard. Spirits rising from the dead. Eerie faces carved out in headstones. Not quite. As Halloween tends to bring these images to light, it is its rich history that has the Bolingbrook Historic Preservation Commission offering walking tours at the Boardman Cemetery this week and not any paranormal activity.

A historic DuPage burying ground, the Boardman Cemetery is the site of the final resting place of some of the founding fathers of Bolingbrook and is one of the oldest cemeteries in northern Illinois. According to the Commission, Boardman Cemetery was established in 1831, when Captain Harry Boardman set aside an acre of his farmland as a “community burial ground.” The cemetery was all but “lost” for many years as it languished in a farm See CEMETERY, page 3

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Boardman Cemetery is the site of the final resting place of some of the founding fathers of Bolingbrook.


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