Friends of Milford Cemetery

04/29/2024

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
At 10:00 a.m., Saturday May 4, 2024
Meet in the Freelove Baldwin Stow DAR chapter house at 55 Prospect Street, Milford, CT

The FOMC was founded in 2014 to help protect and preserve what is officially called 'Ye Old Milford Cemetery'. This graveyard was laid out in 1676 and the ancestors of many of the founding families are buried there. For centuries, it has been a graveyard for everyday people, leaders of Milford’s earliest commercial enterprises; from Revolutionary War veterans through recent military veterans, and the graves of three men who were governors of Connecticut. Every headstone tells a story. It is, after all, the oldest active cemetery in the United States.

All who are interested in joining, participating in, or supporting our activities are welcome to attend our Annual Meeting. If you can't make the meeting, please leave your email address as a response, or send a Facebook message so we can let you know of our future plans.

Thank you and hope to see you on May 4th at 10!

04/29/2024

Join us on June 8 at 1:00 p.m.!

07/10/2023

During the 19th century, and especially in its later years, snacking in cemeteries happened across the United States. https://bit.ly/3FTjRde

Since many municipalities still lacked proper recreational areas, many people had full-blown picnics in their local cemeteries. The tombstone-laden fields were the closest things, then, to modern-day public parks. Eating in graveyards had, and still has, historical precedent. People picnic among the dead across the world, from Guatemala to parts of Greece, and similar traditions involving meals with ancestors are common throughout Asia. What would you bring as a snack to a cemetery?

06/16/2023

https://www.dropbox.com/t/mTtkL8rwmh6OeiCA
This slide show features three of the recent projects that Friends of Milford Cemetery and the Milford Cemetery Association have been working on.
Please take a look!

Friends of the Milford Cemetery All three projects.pdf

06/16/2023

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03/12/2023

Thanks to Jenn Lugus for her awesome detective work!

The stone, belonging to 3-year-old Emma Bingham, was found in a storage shed along with...

12/18/2021

10/26/2021

Due to the weather forecast BOTH Milford Cemetery & Kings Highway will be open for Funeral Services ONLY for the next 48 hours.