Potters Field in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Chicopee

In the oldest section of the cemetery, there are burials from the 1830s.

This old section also has a large, empty-looking northern edge. This might be a potter’s field section. Thus these are pauper’s graves. In the town burial records, this section is denoted with a burial of Town Cemetery. In the 1840s to 1860s town burial records, the burials here are called either Cabotville, Maple Grove, or Town Cemetery.