A cemetery and a ghost sign
This time of year the heat and humidity usually keep me inside where the air is nicely air conditioned, but with the cool and cloudy weather this morning I was ready for a quick and easy adventure. I first stopped at the site of the Duncan Chapel Methodist Cemetery, better known these days as the Children's Graveyard, located off Old Buncombe Road . When I last visited in 2013 , the land was being cleared for development. Today a Walmart Marketplace, a gas station, and a parking lot border the cemetery. The cemetery now is enclosed in a nice black fence. The whole area has been transformed since my first visit to the cemeter y in 2011. This is what the entrance looked like back then: The trees and overgrowth seen in the above photo and in my Flickr album Children's Graveyard - 2011 are gone. The ruins of Thackston Dairy (off the left side of the road) are also gone. Half a mile north of the Children's Graveyard, also off Old Buncombe Road , is thi...