Historical Sketch of School District Number Thirteen, North Danvers: Or, As It Is Known Abroad, Danvers Plains, Or by Its Ancient Name, Porter's Plains, to Distinguish It from Shillaber's Plains, South Danvers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of School District Number Thirteen, North Danvers: Or, as It Is Known Abroad, Danvers Plains, or by Its Ancient Name, Porter's Plains, to Distinguish It From Shillaber's Plains, South Danvers

Danvers plains is a beautiful spot of level land, (with the exception of two elevations, which will be noticed hereafter, ) of a little over a mile square in extent bounded northerly and northeasterly by school districts Nos. 5, 4, and 3, which latter includes Putnamville, or as it was formerly designated, Blind Hole westerly by what was formerly called Tapleyville, now Danvers Centre southerly and southwesterly by Danversport and Crane river. On its southwesterly side is Walnut Grove Cemetery, containing eleven acres, on an elevated spot of land, through whose bosom two purling brooks run in solemn silence, appropriate for the city of the dead. You have a view from the most elevated part of the Cemetery of a beautiful sheet of water, lying in its immediate vicinity. Avenues and paths are made over the surface of the Grove, each with its appropriate name. A great number of iron and granite fences of various structure, according to the taste of their owners, in close their several lots. The cemetery is covered over with a grove of oak, ash, walnut, willow, oil nut, beach, pine, fir, cedar, birch, tupelo, and poplar trees, under whose branches and along the streamlets grow a great variety of native flow ers. Around the border of the cemetery are two hundred trees. Most of them exotics. Ri'he repository of the dead ever flour ishes, and Walnut Grove Cemetery is no exception to the general rule, as all admit, and more especially those who had friends when on earth who were dear to them, whose mortal remains repose in this consecrated spot. But a few years since, this grove was dedicated to the repose of the dead; and let.

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