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Buffalo Cemeteries, An Account of the Burial Places of Buffalo
From the Earliest Times
Read Before the Buffalo Historical Society, February 4, 1879
by WILLIAM HODGE
Pub. Bigelow Brothers, Buffalo, N.Y.; 1879

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                            THE POTTER'S FIELD
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        In 1832, in anticipation of the cholera visiting Buffalo, which had
     just put on "city airs," burials in the old village (Franklin Square)
     cemetery having been prohibited, except by special permission of the
     council, it was deemed desirable to obtain another and more remote
     situation to be ready in case any sudden pestilence should demand
     increased room for the dead. Accordingly I sold to the city five acres
     of farm lot No. 30, lying between North and Best streets, and west of
     Prospect street, for a "Potter's Field," or common burial place; and a
     portion of it was set apart for the Roman Catholics so that it could
     be consecrated according to their belief and form.

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