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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West reading a tablet while visiting Burial Hill in Plymouth. In the foreground, a dozen gravestones stand on a hill that slightly slopes downward from left to right. A walkway enters frame from left and extends towards center behind the near section of the cemetery. At the end of the walkway at center, Mertie West stands in profile, facing right. To the right of her, a wrought-iron fence encircles a bronze tablet flanked by cannons. Gravestones dot the hills of the cemetery grounds in the background at left. NRHP reference # 13000582 Text from negative sleeve: 2358. Eastern trip October 1947 Plymouth 1 Forefathers monument Mertie West at the base 2 H H West at Standish and Alden marker 3 H H West at steps to burial hill very poor negative 4 Mertie West talking to man selling cards across from the ROCK 5 & 6 H H and Mertie West drinking at the old spring in front of P.O. 7 Mertie West reading the tablet on site of the first lookout and fort now part of Burial Hill
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