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Broadacres Cemetery is a historic cemetery under the care of the Tioga County Supervisors, Tioga County, Pennsylvania located on Shumway Hill Road, Charleston Township, Tioga County PA, about 0.2 miles south of US RT 6, opposite and west of the Tioga County Jail facility and Army National Guard facility. The cemetery was used as a potter's field, the county burial ground for the unknown, indigent, abandoned, or insane persons under the care of the county and charitable organizations. In the time the cemetery was in regular use, county care of the indigent and insane was consolidated on the Caleb Austin Farm beginning 1866, operating out of different buildings over time. Local names for the facilities and farm include: Caleb Austin Farm, Broadacres Farm, Tioga County Poor Farm, Tioga Almshouse, Tioga County House and Farm, and County Home. Able body residents worked the farm to provide food for the facility operation. It is estimated only 10 percent of burials have grave stones, all with a single standardized design using limestone. The rest are buried in regular rows across the land adjacent to the marked graves with appropriate sized ground depressions. Most marked graves have death years ranging from 1888 to 1896. It is known the cemetery was used before and after the era of stone use, as evidenced by some later grave markers dated such as 1932. There are some surviving death records indicating burial in the cemetery; or other arrangements made by family, friends, and fraternal organizations, like Grand Army of the Republic. The grounds are well groomed. However, the design of the standardized stone is flawed in that person names are placed often on top of the stone with raised margins. Being limestone, most names are eroded from time, and puddles of acidic rain and snow. The cemetery is confused with the nearby cemetery called Old Charleston Cemetery (aka Austin Farm Cemetery) which is also on Shumway Hill Road, adjacent to heath care facilities named Broadacres, within view of the county jail, and the burial ground of the Tioga County pioneer Caleb Austin. Access is open to the public, but there is no parking designated for the burial grounds.
Broadacres Cemetery is a historic cemetery under the care of the Tioga County Supervisors, Tioga County, Pennsylvania located on Shumway Hill Road, Charleston Township, Tioga County PA, about 0.2 miles south of US RT 6, opposite and west of the Tioga County Jail facility and Army National Guard facility. The cemetery was used as a potter's field, the county burial ground for the unknown, indigent, abandoned, or insane persons under the care of the county and charitable organizations. In the time the cemetery was in regular use, county care of the indigent and insane was consolidated on the Caleb Austin Farm beginning 1866, operating out of different buildings over time. Local names for the facilities and farm include: Caleb Austin Farm, Broadacres Farm, Tioga County Poor Farm, Tioga Almshouse, Tioga County House and Farm, and County Home. Able body residents worked the farm to provide food for the facility operation. It is estimated only 10 percent of burials have grave stones, all with a single standardized design using limestone. The rest are buried in regular rows across the land adjacent to the marked graves with appropriate sized ground depressions. Most marked graves have death years ranging from 1888 to 1896. It is known the cemetery was used before and after the era of stone use, as evidenced by some later grave markers dated such as 1932. There are some surviving death records indicating burial in the cemetery; or other arrangements made by family, friends, and fraternal organizations, like Grand Army of the Republic. The grounds are well groomed. However, the design of the standardized stone is flawed in that person names are placed often on top of the stone with raised margins. Being limestone, most names are eroded from time, and puddles of acidic rain and snow. The cemetery is confused with the nearby cemetery called Old Charleston Cemetery (aka Austin Farm Cemetery) which is also on Shumway Hill Road, adjacent to heath care facilities named Broadacres, within view of the county jail, and the burial ground of the Tioga County pioneer Caleb Austin. Access is open to the public, but there is no parking designated for the burial grounds.
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