Candlewood Lake Leach Hollow Cemetery Dive

Candlewood Lake Leach Hollow Cemetery Dive. Candlewood Valley was flooded in 1929 for power generation. Grave diggers where paid a dollar per grave to relocate the remains. The Leach Hollow cemetery was relocated near the center of Sherman by the town library. What remains is the wall and stairs to the cemetery. Next time I plan to do a more thorough search to see if anyone requested to remain behind...

[@parisbest105]

WHOA!!!! 💀
WHOA!!!! 🙈
WHOA!!!! 👀

[@RM.....]

Very cool

[@fortheearth]

What a wonderful video. So glad you documented this.

[@lindacares2215]

Fascinating!!! I grew up on Candlewood Isle back in the 70s but early 80s my dad gave me the keys to the boat. Spend so much time on the lake and always knew the history of the lake. But I will admit swimming,skiing,tuning I always wondered where the infamous graveyard was. Thank you for sharing this video. Kinda startled me when you were next to that tree....great work!!

[@bigbilltoady412]

Me too. Back then my address was 83 lakeshore drive. We were right on the water. Brookfield. 1965 to 1972. I'll never know why my mom and dad sold that house.

[@thankswillie]

i read the book(mostly pictures) on the building,...not sure how old the graves were...but i work in a cemetery...and after far less than a 100 years...doesnt seem to be much left....probably depends on soil,etc....wonder how much they really moved and who was watching

[@pittwr]

That’s interesting. I was wondering the same thing. Read an interesting article on potters field, NYC. mentioned after 50 years they could reuse a plot... For a buck a grave there’s not much incentive. $15 bucks in today’s dollars.

[@AlexPletcherPhoto]

Maybe the buck a grave thing was to make us think people were always just desperate for money

[@ScBrownhill]

cool videos im curious where you get the maps from?

[@pittwr]

The local town halls have copies available of the original CL&P survey maps. I use them along with an updated depth map to navigate.
archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/Truman_A._Warner_Papers_MS026/4653/ms026_mapdrawer8_candlewood_1926_whole.jpg
Link to a larger CL&P map from the 1920s. Part of an interesting Candlewood history piece from WCSU.

[@niquitalashon9004]

If you take leach out is it deceiving

[@pittwr]

🤔Leach Hollow is the name of the cemetery..

[@knowone3529]

Need a group of logisticians to work on the sunken Jerusalem data..

[@pittwr]

🤔?

[@knowone3529]

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[@nicolecrutchfield4601]

Exactly. I literally haven’t been able to find a single thing out about Jerusalem. I wonder if it was a black community…😢

[@knowone3529]

@@nicolecrutchfield4601 possibly.. He gets enslaved here instead of the bullshit story u get from the Illiterati.. This story has potential got to be peer reviewed.. Im in Meriden.. thanks for your response