Georgetown Historical Society
20 Bay Point Rd
Georgetown, ME 04548
**EXPANDED CEMETERY TOUR
EVENT PARKING MAP
Parking is very limited at GHS. If you can, please park at First Church or the school/town office, all are a very short walk down the road. Some cars can be parked alongside the road in front of the historical society. For everyone’s safety, only on the historical society side, please.
8:30-9:15 Registration
Entry fee of $5.00 per person. May be paid in advance online (preferred) or by cash only at the door, but please let us know you are coming as SPACE IS LIMITED! An assortment of breakfast fruit & pastries, coffee, tea will be available. All proceeds benefit Georgetown Historical Society and MOCA.
8:30-12:00 Exhibits, Displays, Cemetery Projects
If you have a cemetery project and wish to share information with others, please bring a display board, photos, or other related materials. Tables will be available to set up displays.
9:15-9:30 Welcome and Introductions
Susan Taylor-President, Georgetown Historical Society
Jenna Davis-President, MOCA
9:30-10:15 What’s that cemetery? Who is in it? And why can’t I find it?
GHS, the town of Georgetown, MOCA and Harold Brown mostly agree. However, there are conflicts regarding who, what, and where. GHS has undertaken a project to expand a few binders of information into 50 (and counting) binders; one for each cemetery in Georgetown. Elly Urquhart and other GHS volunteers will talk about how this project progressed to integrate multiple sources and make information available to researchers.
10:30-11:15 MOCA Annual Business Meeting and presentation of slate of officers.
11:15-12:00 Monumental Georgetown Darice Birge, GHS
Like other communities in Maine, Georgetown’s cemeteries contain monuments to soldiers and sailors who fought in American wars. Darice will discuss inscriptions and locations of their gravestones, in particular those Civil War casualties, to look at the variety of ways in which Georgetown families honored their husbands, sons, and brothers.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Assorted finger sandwiches, chips, beverages and dessert. $10 per person, to benefit Georgetown Historical Society. LUNCH RESERVATIONS REQUIRED BY SEPT 16. Lunch reservations may be made online via the MOCA website at moca-me.org or contact Jessica Couture at couturejess@gmail.com or phone/text 207-649-6161.
1:00 Visit Oak Cemetery
Darice Birge and Chester Horne of GHS will be just a short walk down the road at Oak Cemetery, behind First Church, for your visit. Maps with parking details will be available at GHS for other town cemeteries you may want to visit.
**NEW** Carol Start, board member of GHS and part of the town's cemetery committee, will also be at Oak Cemetery after lunch, giving tours of the caretaker’s shed, which is basically a time capsule as it is exactly as it was left in the 1940s, right down to the caretaker’s boots and jacket.
Indoor and/or rain option Susan and Jeanne will be available in the Georgetown Historical Society research room to guide you through their extensive collection and to assist with computer searches, as well. And don’t forget to take a peek at all the wonderful items they have for sale.
