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House of Industry Burial Grounds

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Location	:	Athens, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate	:	44.6363700, -75.9331900
Description	:	There are more than a hundred individuals who lie buried on the farm in the rear of the institution on Highway # 42, just east of Athens, Ontario, and known variously over the years as the "House of Refuge". "The House of Industry", The "Counties Home" and presently as "Maple View Lodge", a very good modern nursing home behind the old brick Victorian Facade. The location of the individual graves is unmarked, indeed unknown. In July of 1894 the Athens Reporter stated that "after years of persistent agitation, careful consideration and deliberate decision, the counties council of "Leeds and... Read More	There are more than a hundred individuals who lie buried on the farm in the rear of the institution on Highway # 42, just east of Athens, Ontario, and known variously over the years as the "House of Refuge". "The House of Industry", The "Counties Home" and presently as "Maple View Lodge", a very good modern nursing home behind the old brick Victorian Facade. The location of the individual graves is unmarked, indeed unknown. In July of 1894 the Athens Reporter stated that "after years of persistent agitation, careful consideration and deliberate decision, the counties council of "Leeds and Grenville have decided to erect a home for the poor and unfortunate of the counties" A "House of Industry" was built on Highway # 42 and officially opened on November 27, 1895.. Those who died while inmates of the House of Industry and whose bodies remained unclaimed, were buried "on the farm back of the home". There could be many more - when deaths occurred in winter time, the bodies were placed in the Athens vault, to await burial in the spring. The records do not indicate the eventual place of disposal of these bodies - that is, if they were claimed by relatives and friends, or, unclaimed were "buried on the famr" When management of the House of Industry was assumed by Mr. & Mrs. Dan McConnell in 1946, the new managers rejected with rightous indignation the practice of "burial on the farm", and made arrangements for future burials of unclaimed bodies in a special plot in the nearby Glen Elbe Cemetery. A plaque was erected on the farm grounds to indicate that burials had been made in the past.

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Quaker Cemetery
Athens, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6300800, -75.9415600

2. Hillside Cemetery
Athens, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6238000, -75.9472300

3. Athens Village Cemetery
Athens, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6239170, -75.9478100

4. Glen Elbe Cemetery
Glen Elbe, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6352800, -75.9013700

5. Abandoned Cemetery
Addison, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6618900, -75.9015000

6. Gallinger Cemetery
Addison, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6674050, -75.9015300

7. Barber Cemetery
Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6798910, -75.9372750

8. Lake Eloida Cemetery
Eloida, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6735700, -75.9689100

9. Holmes Cemetery
Escott, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6801460, -75.9551360

10. Saint Denis Cemetery
Athens, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6261800, -76.0000900

11. Browntown Cemetery
Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6756380, -75.8847710

12. Pepper Cemetery
Redan, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6852640, -75.8906640

13. Sheldon Cemetery
Sheldon's Corners, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6535100, -76.0171100

14. Glen Buell Cemetery
Glen Buell, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6349600, -75.8389300

15. Blanchard Burying Ground
Greenbush, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6775950, -75.8572910

16. Plum Hollow Cemetery
Plum Hollow, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6684200, -76.0207800

17. Mitchell-Kilborn Cemetery
Kitley, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6872670, -76.0017330

18. Lehigh Cemetery
Lehighs Corners, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.7075200, -75.9526000

19. Davis Cemetery
Tincap, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6468740, -75.8292110

20. Foley Family Plot
Greenbush, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6920170, -75.8591330

21. Oak Leaf Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
Oak Leaf, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.5876700, -76.0201400

22. Blanchard Cemetery
Greenbush, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6960390, -75.8520770

23. Greenbush Cemetery
Brockville, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.6890520, -75.8416070

24. Kerr Cemetery
Elizabethtown, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Canada
Coordinate: 44.7015860, -75.8581900

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