The Homestead Journal
Rooted in History
“We do not need to look to the far distant past before we find ancestors who were tied to the soil …”
The Search for a Lost Pioneer Cemetery: The Brown Burial Ground Discovery Walk
On a cool autumn day, two weekends ago, The Brown Homestead staff members and several volunteers spent the afternoon scouring the rugged landscape of Short Hills Provincial Park. They purposefully pushed their way through thorny bushes, slogged through muddy puddles and tramped over flattened heights in search of something lost. They were searching for a vanished pioneer cemetery: the Brown Burial Ground.