This film was filmed October 6 2012. This is me with one of the Flim Directors. Here is a little history on the Cemetery. The land surrounding Bachelors Grove Cemetery was originally settled by English homesteaders who relocated to the area from New England, including Stephen Rexford, arguably the most well known of the first wave of Anglo settlers, around 1833. The asserts the actual cemetery was originally named the Everdon Cemetery after the original holder of the property title, Samuel Everdon. The site saw its first official burials around 1840 and contains 82 plots, many of which were never sold or used. Burials, however, possibly go back as far as 1834, when German immigrant workers killed while working on the Illinois and Michigan Canal were reportedly laid to rest at the site. The site is often reported to have been a dumping ground for victims of Chicagos organized crime families of the 1920s and 1930s, but no evidence of this has ever been uncovered.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:14:47 +0000
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