Rutland Poor Farm Cemetery in Rutland, Vermont

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Get directions Gleason Road
Rutland, Vermont, USA

Coordinates: 43.62070, -72.95111
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The Rutland Poor Farm Cemetery was located on the part of the Poor Farm property that is now the transfer station - the city dump - on Gleason Road. It is not known for sure how many are buried there, probably more than is currently known. In October 2008, a monument, donated by a local monument company, was erected at the site of the cemetery, which is surrounded by a fence.

In 2011 a kiosk constructed by Stafford Technical Center students was placed at the site. It lists the names of those known to be buried there and says:

"The land for the Rutland Poor Farm was purchased by the Town of Rutland in 1887 shortly after the division of the original Town of Rutland by the Vermont Legislature.
The first clients were housed in new buildings constructed at the farm about August 1, 1887. The Poor Farm was closed in 1966.
This cemetery, at the north end of the property, served as burial grounds for those who died at the farm for whom no one stepped forward to make arrangements for their burial elsewhere.
A search of Rutland City Vital Records through 1911 revealed some names of persons buried at this site. If there were markers or stones, as some have suggested, no evidence can be found today.
The memorial grave stone and kiosk acknowledge those named and unnamed persons buried here. It memorializes this sacred soil in remembrance of those unfortunate citizens that circumstances dealt with so harshly in life. Thus shall they be remembered in death."