Taylor Township Cemetery

Taylor Township Cemetery is a Michigan historical marker in Taylor, Wayne County, dedicated 2000.

Golden Ridge Road, Taylor

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This cemetery is the oldest of the city’s three municipal burial grounds. More than half of the graves date from the nineteenth century. William Sutcliffe donated the land for a cemetery in 1819. Some of Taylor’s earliest settlers are buried here as well as merchants and manufacturers. The earliest legible marker, that of Abel Aspinwall, dates from 1830. Because poor people were buried without cost, the cemetery was once known as Potter’s Field.

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1812 · Ohio. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1819 · Ohio & Indiana (H. S. Tanner, 1819) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1820 · Map Of The State Of Ohio (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1820 · Ohio (Bourne & Kilbourne, 1820) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1822 · Map Of Michigan Territory. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Map Of The State Of Ohio, 1820, covering the location of Taylor Township Cemetery, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map Of The State Of Ohio, 1820, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Taylor Township Cemetery

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