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No Name Smallpox Cemetery

No Name Smallpox Cemetery
Article by Terry Catalano about the 'No Names Cemetery' where people who died of smallpox were buried anonymously. Also an article in the Advocate on March 17, 1994 about the same smallpox cemetery and an effort to rescue it from debris and disarray by a local committee.
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Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Burial, Cemeteries, Death, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown Advocate, and United States. National Park Service
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