Great video ! I love the old headstones. I found one in Pepperell Mass, just off the road, which was a Revolutionary war grave site, from 1776 ! A young man in his 30's was buried there, and his stone read. "Look and see as you pass by", 'as you are now , 'so once was I". "As I am now, "so you shall be", "Prepare for Death" , and "Follow Me" !! I took a picture of it and put it on my fridge. Makes you think, No?
The mausoleum @5:25 was probably used as storage for caskets during the winter months since the ground was usually rock hard. I know a lot of older cemeteries up north used to have them. They were necessary because things like backhoes etc didn't exist back then.
I think you're on to something there. That structure may be what has been called a receiving vault. I saw some carved words above the door but couldn't decipher what they were.
in my opinion, the terrain is uneven on purpose.Keeps the cemetery from flooding. the wood at the center is just a mark to know how many inches/feet of water .
You are doing what I used to do. I love going thru cemeteries, reading the names, dates, etc... I really like going thru the ones in the South. Some of the graves actually tell what or how the person died from. In Fla. some of the smaller, out of the way cemeteries had sections for the people who died of Yellow Fever, smallpox, etc... The only people allowed into those sections were those who had survived and therefore couldn't get sick again. You can learn a lot of history in cemeteries.
I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I found a newspaper article talking about a guy who broke in there one night this past spring and caused major damage to over 100 grave stones. There was so much damage that they didn't think he was working alone but they didn't have any leads on his cohorts. If they never caught anybody else it would explain the added surveillance you experienced.
Most of our Mausoleums are out of town as I have never seen any in town here where I live, some of the headstones are beautiful wow, great video thanks for taking me along xx
Some of those "mausoleums" could be winter storage areas. When the ground was frozen solid, they would store the bodies until the ground thawed. Great Video.
Another very intresting history lesson in this cemetery, Matt. I don't know why but those circles make me think of mass burials like during outbreaks of extremely infectious diseases. Loved the masoleums, espically the one with the exposed brickwork. The stained glassed window was just gorgeous. You find some of the most amazing things, Matt and I truly thank you for sharing them with us. One very special highlight to my week is a new vidoe from you. ❤ Stay safe and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and an amazing New Year!
The mausoleum at 5:25, the green stuff covering the brick is called stucco. It is a cement product used to cover the outside of a building before siding became popular. My grandma lived in a house covered with stucco.
Hey Matt, don’t know how I missed this awesome video...this has to be one of your top ten! That Woodmen of the World monument was truly an epic one! Maybe those strange mound-like areas were vortexes into the Great Beyond. 😂
Amazing video Matt. What a beautiful cemetery! I wish I knew where it is. I'd love to go there some day. And with the surrounding lakes and footpath around them...awesome! The sunset was also very beautiful. I read some of the comments and I also am thinking that maybe the sunk-in areas were some kind of Indian ceremonial place. Thank you Matt, for your amazing videos and telling the history of the places you visit. Merry Christmas to you!!!
5.58 minutes it looks like a receiving vault, and probably stored bodies in the bad weather months, until they could be buried back in the 1800's and Earlier part of 1900's 🤓😉💌🇬🇧 P.s I totally enjoy your vlogs/strolls 👍🏻
You should come to Minnesota and visit Oakland Cemetery in Saint Paul. The cemetery used to cater to the rich and well connected. There are many mausoleums that are both historically and architecturally important. One in particular, belongs to a couple who, at the time, were considered "new money". The cemetery board quoted the widow a ridiculous price in an attempt to keep her out. But when she agreed, they had no choice but to allow the burial. It's a beautiful Grecian style mausoleum that dominates an entire corner of the section.
Love this video, such a peaceful place, I always get anxiety when it seems you are a distance from your car and the sun us going down 😳. Just a little bit creepy 😆
Cool cemetery. If you are ever interested in checking out a couple in Kalamazoo, I would be happy to show you around. I could probably have our local historic preservation coordinator join us. Love how respectful your videos are. Thank you for all the great content.
They look like in my opinion where there was once fountains? In those round places? Also it’s been awhile since I took a headstone class but the tree stones mean either like family or the tree of life.
That first mausoleum could have a buried chapel or vault. It could be that entire area. There is a beautiful underground chapel buried in Lindenwood cemetery in Ft. Wayne IN. The marker is a giant obelisk. you would never know what was underground!
Awesome cemetery. The first building you showed looks like a winter storage building for caskets when the ground is too frozen. Since methods have changed it may now be used for something else. Those indented areas are very strange. You found dome unusal stones. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤Merry Christmas🎄
Hello Matt that last mausoleum you showed was big just like the ones in Culiacan Sinaloa Mexico them have 2 story ones fancy and very expensive they also have electricity, Internet and they are all well kept. So beautiful. I enjoyed watching your video them tombstones are so old it's sad that the city does not have that cemetery well kept.👍
@@539Productions yes you should I know that if you show a video of them 2 story mausoleums and everybody from around the world that sees your channel videos they'll love watching your video from Culiacan Sinaloa Mexico. They are huge there's also some that looks like them monuments from Russia and another that looks like the temple of Israel the one with that big round ball on top. One even looks like the Taj Mahal monument in India with marble designs also except that the one in Mexico it's a two story. Hope one day you go over there.
I love old cemeteries.. I have looked up deaths by accident by dates I have read on headstones in Papers Past and found write ups on their deaths. Some have been really interesting
Thanks Matt for another awesome video about the Epic Mausoleums In Massive 1800s Graveyard I really enjoyed it my friend and keep up the good work Matt my friend and MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR and may God bless you and thanks again. and I can't wait to see your next video
Good video! If you find out what those indention's are, post a follow up. My first guess was a mass burial site but there seems to be quite a few of them so I don't know. Very well patrolled and kept cemetery.
I remember when the Pease Cemetery in Pease, Minnesota was only half tarred. In the last 5 years they finally paved the entire road through the cemetery. The gravel road is actually pretty cool. And yes, you are definitely being watched if you are visiting a maintained cemetery. You May not know unless they think you are doing suspicious activity.
Those circular landscape features look as if they could be ancient Native American earthworks commonly found in Wisconsin, Ohio and other Midwestern states. Modern cemeteries were sometimes built upon them.
My thoughts too, Herb. Look like the ceremonial grounds. Not necessarily a native American graveyard. Many Native Americans did not bury their dead like we do.
Once saw a grave yard house. Beeing repaired. They had mixed plaster of Paris. With a pigment. Then pressed gravel against the work to make it last along time.
Hey Matt thanks again for sharing your exploring adventures with us!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏻👍🏻 You are such a great explorer. I have only one wish and that is for you to initiate a conversation with the security volunteers. They probably know everything about their cemetery and would probably love to assist. I ran into a man in my family's cemetery and he was a weekend security volunteer and I asked him to tell me what he knew. I have grown up going to ours but I ended up finding out a lot of info including where a General from the army was buried. Anyway you are a really nice guy as well as well spoken. You should try to utilize the visitors or security so we all may learn something. PS by the way cemeteries are infamous for drinkers🍷🍺 to stop and fill up their togo mug ☕ or just stop to have a drink. They are infamously sketched out easily and they try hard not to be noticed or watched. Just a law enforcement tip for ya. 😉😎👮🏼♀️👍🏻
@@539Productions I somehow missed your reply. I think it would be kind of neat to "interview" someone at the cemeteries when you see them. They'll probably have a great story to tell about the cemetery that maybe nobody knows. If you ever want to come to Ontario Canada to do some exploring I would be more than happy to put you up. I'm in between the New York and Detroit orders into Canada.
I suspect the circular depressions may at one time have been floral or shrubbery plantings that were probably taken out eventually just for easier upkeep. Pretty place, I've always been interested in these burial options. Thanks for posting!!
Wow learn something new-luv it. I had never heard of woodmen insurance or grave stones. Now I want to research what you all say those circular areas are, got some of my own idea. 539, you should of ask the person watching you if they knew? Have always enjoyed walking through grave yards. So peaceful and so much history. The input of everyone is great!
I believe Emil Stroh is the Stroh's beer family. Btw, do you ever check with the cemetery office for history and info? Also, public records? I've been fascinated with cemeteries since I was a teenager. My family thought it was weird, and now there are many youtubers who do what you do. I think it's great. So much history.
CAN YOU TRY MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO OF THIS LAKESIDE GRAVES WITH THE MANY TREES & LEAVES IN THE SUMMERTIME. MUST BE LOVELY TO WATCH THEM. WATCHING IN CANADA
You're in my town. I spend quite a bit of time up in oak grove, besides the fact I work for the city it's a beautiful cemetery. Did a photo shoot with my hearse in front of the chapel several months ago, and you were right about the pit next to the chapel, it was an ampitheater for services and other large gatherings. Also, the mausoleum in the old section of the cemetery was a community storage of sorts during the winter months. When it was too cold to bury people they would be placed into the mausoleum until a thaw came, then they would be buried. Now days it's just used for storage.
About that vault marked 'Erected 1859' and built into the bank next to the mound. It could possibly be an old storage vault for the deceased who had to wait for the winter's frozen ground to thaw before they could be buried.
Great video ! I love the old headstones. I found one in Pepperell Mass, just off the road, which was a Revolutionary war grave site, from 1776 ! A young man in his 30's was buried there, and his stone read. "Look and see as you pass by", 'as you are now , 'so once was I". "As I am now, "so you shall be", "Prepare for Death" , and "Follow Me" !! I took a picture of it and put it on my fridge. Makes you think, No?
I think about it every day
I love that verse
The East , like Mass. and Connecticut have much older graves and cemeteries than do the Midwest.
The mausoleum @5:25 was probably used as storage for caskets during the winter months since the ground was usually rock hard. I know a lot of older cemeteries up north used to have them. They were necessary because things like backhoes etc didn't exist back then.
I think you're on to something there. That structure may be what has been called a receiving vault. I saw some carved words above the door but couldn't decipher what they were.
I’m thinking it’s a receiving vault as well. The lettering above the door says “Erected AD 1859”
I live in the town where this cemetery is, and you're completely right about it's use.
in my opinion, the terrain is uneven on purpose.Keeps the cemetery from flooding. the wood at the center is just a mark to know how many inches/feet of water .
what I was thinking also, surprised this didn't come to the guy filming this realization
You walked directly onto the broken step at 1:35 😂😂😂 thanks for the laugh this morning, also amazing video
You are doing what I used to do. I love going thru cemeteries, reading the names, dates, etc...
I really like going thru the ones in the South. Some of the graves actually tell what or how the person died from. In Fla. some of the smaller, out of the way cemeteries had sections for the people who died of Yellow Fever, smallpox, etc... The only people allowed into those sections were those who had survived and therefore couldn't get sick again. You can learn a lot of history in cemeteries.
Matt, thanks for the great video. What a pleasure.
I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I found a newspaper article talking about a guy who broke in there one night this past spring and caused major damage to over 100 grave stones. There was so much damage that they didn't think he was working alone but they didn't have any leads on his cohorts. If they never caught anybody else it would explain the added surveillance you experienced.
Mary Bobb, three men were eventually charged, sentenced to jail time/probation, and ordered to pay restitution.
That’s just terrible. You gotta be a real low life to disrespect the dead like that. Glad they were caught!
That is so wrong , why do people destroy history like that .
They should be given community time cleaning up cemetery!
Hi from rainy Oregon! Love this video. Especially like the stones that look like trees! Thank you so much for all the work you put into your posts!
You found a holding crypt. That's why there was no name on it. Really cool grave yard! Thanks for sharing.
One of the most beautiful cemetery you've shown! Fantastic!❤
Awesome explore! I was in need of a cemetery fix. What a beautiful place I could lose 3 or 4 hours here easy. You are my favorite UA-camr.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it, more to come soon!
Most of our Mausoleums are out of town as I have never seen any in town here where I live, some of the headstones are beautiful wow, great video thanks for taking me along xx
Some of those "mausoleums" could be winter storage areas. When the ground was frozen solid, they would store the bodies until the ground thawed. Great Video.
Yep, the cemetery my family is buried out at has two of them that they are now selling as a mausoleum.
YOU SAID SO, LOOKING AT THE SERENE PLACE GIVES ME A FEELING OF BEING TRANSPORTED BACK IN TIME. THANKS. WATCHING IN CANADA.
Beautiful cemetery! Just love the tree headstones. Those pits are very interesting.
WOW!! Loved this place! Especially that first mausoleum with all the ivy and cracked plaster! Made my fingers itch to draw!
The strange mound is where they would bring the caskets in, kind of a round about. Probly from horse and buggy days . . . .
demoninepro99p I was thinking they were for rain run off so erosion would be minimal.
Love your vids, You are always respectful and for that i thank you, Its a pleaseure to watch you on your travels lol, Happy 2019
Another very intresting history lesson in this cemetery, Matt. I don't know why but those circles make me think of mass burials like during outbreaks of extremely infectious diseases. Loved the masoleums, espically the one with the exposed brickwork. The stained glassed window was just gorgeous. You find some of the most amazing things, Matt and I truly thank you for sharing them with us. One very special highlight to my week is a new vidoe from you. ❤ Stay safe and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and an amazing New Year!
When I seen this video it reminds me of my own family cementry. Great video
Great episode, great old graveyard, love old graveyards and your videos about them. Happy holidays and lot of great vids in New year!
The mausoleum at 5:25, the green stuff covering the brick is called stucco. It is a cement product used to cover the outside of a building before siding became popular. My grandma lived in a house covered with stucco.
like video i bet the security guy has a few stories about the ocuupants in the graves or just a few of them.
Matt... This was a fascinating video ! Thanks so much for sharing ! I, too, enjoy researching cemetarys ! :)
Awesome find love it. Wow love the woodman stones very cool
It was such a creative idea by the Order!
Woodmen Of The World was an insurance company Tree monuments were headstones that came with your insurance policy.
Hey Matt, don’t know how I missed this awesome video...this has to be one of your top ten! That Woodmen of the World monument was truly an epic one! Maybe those strange mound-like areas were vortexes into the Great Beyond. 😂
Amazing video Matt. What a beautiful cemetery! I wish I knew where it is. I'd love to go there some day. And with the surrounding lakes and footpath around them...awesome! The sunset was also very beautiful. I read some of the comments and I also am thinking that maybe the sunk-in areas were some kind of Indian ceremonial place. Thank you Matt, for your amazing videos and telling the history of the places you visit. Merry Christmas to you!!!
Thank you Matt. This a a real find and so well maintained. Merry Christmas.
Thank you Jenny...very informative,i never knew that!!
Wow man AWESOME video! Your best cemetery one so far...Thanks for all the work you do man ur the best!
Thank you so much. I have enjoyed this video greatly. I love cemeteries, especially the older ones.
5.58 minutes it looks like a receiving vault, and probably stored bodies in the bad weather months, until they could be buried back in the 1800's and Earlier part of 1900's 🤓😉💌🇬🇧
P.s I totally enjoy your vlogs/strolls 👍🏻
Do they out dead people in those places??
Oh I can't wait to watch. I will when I get off work. Have a great day
What an excellent cemetery tour. Thanks Matt! Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year. :-)
wow excellent looked after cemetery and thank you for your interesting and fascinating tour from across the pond in UK
You should be a amazing film ... expert...talented.. enjoy your work
Thank you!
You should come to Minnesota and visit Oakland Cemetery in Saint Paul. The cemetery used to cater to the rich and well connected. There are many mausoleums that are both historically and architecturally important. One in particular, belongs to a couple who, at the time, were considered "new money". The cemetery board quoted the widow a ridiculous price in an attempt to keep her out. But when she agreed, they had no choice but to allow the burial. It's a beautiful Grecian style mausoleum that dominates an entire corner of the section.
I absolutely love the old cemeteries and the mausoleums are just gorgeous. Loved watching.
Sitting down with a cup of coffee and watching your video - so relaxing and interesting . Thanks 💜
Oh boy this is going to be good the chruch and gate alone got me glue
Beautiful place of rest. It has a very serene atmosphere.
That is an amazing cemetery.
You always give amazing content..thank you Matt! This place was gorgeous as well as intriguing.🥰
Love this video, such a peaceful place, I always get anxiety when it seems you are a distance from your car and the sun us going down 😳. Just a little bit creepy 😆
Love his videos during that time of day and overcast days for effect..
Cool cemetery. If you are ever interested in checking out a couple in Kalamazoo, I would be happy to show you around. I could probably have our local historic preservation coordinator join us. Love how respectful your videos are. Thank you for all the great content.
They look like in my opinion where there was once fountains? In those round places? Also it’s been awhile since I took a headstone class but the tree stones mean either like family or the tree of life.
Woodmen of the World was an insurance company Tree monuments were headstones that came with your insurance policy.
That first mausoleum could have a buried chapel or vault. It could be that entire area. There is a beautiful underground chapel buried in Lindenwood cemetery in Ft. Wayne IN. The marker is a giant obelisk. you would never know what was underground!
Awesome cemetery. The first building you showed looks like a winter storage building for caskets when the ground is too frozen. Since methods have changed it may now be used for something else. Those indented areas are very strange. You found dome unusal stones. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤Merry Christmas🎄
Hello Matt that last mausoleum you showed was big just like the ones in Culiacan Sinaloa Mexico them have 2 story ones fancy and very expensive they also have electricity, Internet and they are all well kept. So beautiful. I enjoyed watching your video them tombstones are so old it's sad that the city does not have that cemetery well kept.👍
Thanks, Esther! Sounds like something I would like to visit one day!
@@539Productions yes you should I know that if you show a video of them 2 story mausoleums and everybody from around the world that sees your channel videos they'll love watching your video from Culiacan Sinaloa Mexico. They are huge there's also some that looks like them monuments from Russia and another that looks like the temple of Israel the one with that big round ball on top. One even looks like the Taj Mahal monument in India with marble designs also except that the one in Mexico it's a two story. Hope one day you go over there.
Ok i just watch it all almost reminds me of a golf course this was awesome love the beautiful stain glass window
I love old cemeteries.. I have looked up deaths by accident by dates I have read on headstones in Papers Past and found write ups on their deaths. Some have been really interesting
what a beautiful place, Thank you Matt, Merry Christmas 💗
What a interesting cemetery! Thank you !
Awesome location! Those doors at the beginning are awesome!!
Want those on my house!
That was awesome.
Great vlog and what a gorgeous sunset!!
Another great video thanks.
Thanks Matt for another awesome video about the Epic Mausoleums In Massive 1800s Graveyard I really enjoyed it my friend and keep up the good work Matt my friend and MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR and may God bless you and thanks again. and I can't wait to see your next video
New subscriber, I like your videos 👍 especially this one, for some strange reason I like cemeteries
Can someone please tell me what the water spigots and attached milk jugs are/were used for???
For visitors to water the private planters in front of the more elaborate installations
Watering flowers
@@539Productions thank you!
@@dewey4533 thank you!
looks very interesting, great vids keep up the good work
Good video! If you find out what those indention's are, post a follow up. My first guess was a mass burial site but there seems to be quite a few of them so I don't know. Very well patrolled and kept cemetery.
Was hoping you found out more on the circles and how many were there, an aerial shot of the cemetary could show, some sort of pattern.
Wow....just wow. This is one of your best explores yet....
Eerie, yet beautiful
I bet that guard has played cemetery gates by pantera plenty of times.
Northern Trumbull County/southern Ashtabula county Ohio has many small graveyards in cornfields spent one summer on a moped checking them out
I remember when the Pease Cemetery in Pease, Minnesota was only half tarred. In the last 5 years they finally paved the entire road through the cemetery. The gravel road is actually pretty cool. And yes, you are definitely being watched if you are visiting a maintained cemetery. You May not know unless they think you are doing suspicious activity.
Sometimes I will go to Forest Hill Cemetery in Milaca, Minnesota and enjoy a lunch. It's a beautiful cemetery, but this one blows it away.
Beautiful cemetery thank you
Always enjoy your videos. Thank you and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
You too! Thank you so very much! Happy Holidays!
So much enthusiasm. It shines through in your work. Love your videos
Thank you very much, Teresa!
Those circular landscape features look as if they could be ancient Native American earthworks commonly found in Wisconsin, Ohio and other Midwestern states. Modern cemeteries were sometimes built upon them.
My thoughts too, Herb. Look like the ceremonial grounds. Not necessarily a native American graveyard. Many Native Americans did not bury their dead like we do.
Herb Wag I thought the same! Reminds me of Serpent Mound and other Indian mounds here in Ohio - Newark, Athens, and Tarlton.
Once saw a grave yard house. Beeing repaired. They had mixed plaster of Paris. With a pigment. Then pressed gravel against the work to make it last along time.
great video hope you have a merry xmas and a happy new year
Really cool place. Amazing memorials
Nice love your comment at 9:10, lol.
What a great vid! Would you come to it to film some gravestones that you did vid?
Awesome find
I want a mausoleum with a heated hot tub! Great site and adventure. Ask the park police for a map of the area.
That place is huge, any openings?
Dam, Matt! Yall kickin butt! Love it!
Thanks bro! Still gotta do some exploring over there in your neck of the woods!
Those cars are just making sure your being respectful
Paige Lee yeah people should mind there own business instead of jumping to conclusions
Merry Christmas Matt
Hey Matt thanks again for sharing your exploring adventures with us!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏻👍🏻 You are such a great explorer. I have only one wish and that is for you to initiate a conversation with the security volunteers. They probably know everything about their cemetery and would probably love to assist. I ran into a man in my family's cemetery and he was a weekend security volunteer and I asked him to tell me what he knew. I have grown up going to ours but I ended up finding out a lot of info including where a General from the army was buried. Anyway you are a really nice guy as well as well spoken. You should try to utilize the visitors or security so we all may learn something. PS by the way cemeteries are infamous for drinkers🍷🍺 to stop and fill up their togo mug ☕ or just stop to have a drink. They are infamously sketched out easily and they try hard not to be noticed or watched. Just a law enforcement tip for ya. 😉😎👮🏼♀️👍🏻
Yeah, a few of these places need some return visits to gather more info!
@@539Productions I somehow missed your reply. I think it would be kind of neat to "interview" someone at the cemeteries when you see them. They'll probably have a great story to tell about the cemetery that maybe nobody knows.
If you ever want to come to Ontario Canada to do some exploring I would be more than happy to put you up. I'm in between the New York and Detroit orders into Canada.
Greetings from Texas.just a beautiful cemetary.i wish you Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.Stay safe & thanks for sharing. Great job great video !
Happy Holidays, Jeretta!
@@539Productions Thank you so much.
I suspect the circular depressions may at one time have been floral or shrubbery plantings that were probably taken out eventually just for easier upkeep.
Pretty place, I've always been interested in these burial options. Thanks for posting!!
Wow learn something new-luv it. I had never heard of woodmen insurance or grave stones. Now I want to research what you all say those circular areas are, got some of my own idea. 539, you should of ask the person watching you if they knew? Have always enjoyed walking through grave yards. So peaceful and so much history. The input of everyone is great!
Could they be water drainage runofffs?
They are flood basins. This cemetary appears to be on a river or lake.
I believe Emil Stroh is the Stroh's beer family. Btw, do you ever check with the cemetery office for history and info? Also, public records? I've been fascinated with cemeteries since I was a teenager. My family thought it was weird, and now there are many youtubers who do what you do. I think it's great. So much history.
I loved this so much thank you
This was a beautiful vlog thank you !
CAN YOU TRY MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO OF THIS LAKESIDE GRAVES WITH THE MANY TREES & LEAVES IN THE SUMMERTIME. MUST BE LOVELY TO WATCH THEM. WATCHING IN CANADA
Always a possibility to return one day!
Thanks for sharing be safe. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
7:35 I'm pretty sure that's a receiving vault where bodies were temporarily kept during winter until the ground thawed.
You're in my town. I spend quite a bit of time up in oak grove, besides the fact I work for the city it's a beautiful cemetery. Did a photo shoot with my hearse in front of the chapel several months ago, and you were right about the pit next to the chapel, it was an ampitheater for services and other large gatherings. Also, the mausoleum in the old section of the cemetery was a community storage of sorts during the winter months. When it was too cold to bury people they would be placed into the mausoleum until a thaw came, then they would be buried. Now days it's just used for storage.
What town is this cemetery in and what is the name of the cemetery? Thanks!
As always great video.
Hello matt love the cemetery.
Great Video..Greetings from Australia
About that vault marked 'Erected 1859' and built into the bank next to the mound. It could possibly be an old storage vault for the deceased who had to wait for the winter's frozen ground to thaw before they could be buried.
Making sure you weren't destroying the headstones.