Move To Put Rome Cemetery On Historic Places List
March 8, 2012 2:10 PM 
We live in a historic area in central New York. From Fort Stanwix to the Oriskany Battlefield and the Erie Canal, we are surrounded by a number of historic sites. Now, a move is on to add a cemetery in Rome to the list of historic places.
According to our sister station, WIBX:
“An Oneida County cemetery is being recommended for the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
Wright Settlement Cemetery in Rome, still in use today, is an 8.7 acre lot which is home to about 3,000 headstones. The earliest tombstone is dated 1806.
Most of the historical value of the site is derived from the history of the families who settled in the town of Rome after the Revolutionary War. Most of the other information about that period of history were lost to the development of the Rome Air Depot in 1941.”
For more, visit wibx950.com
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