Dwyer Cemetery
N 38° 43.212 W 078° 17.679
17S E 735200 N 4289202
An old mountaineer cemetery is located in Shenandoah National Park.
Waymark Code: WM1T1Q
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 07/04/2007
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There are over 100 cemeteries known to exist in Shenandoah National Park. Most of them are no longer maintained and have succumbed to the elements and are overgrown and hard to find -- lost deep in the woods.
The Dwyer Cemetery has also fallen into disrepair, but is one of the few still accessible by trail. It is located about 100' from the junction of the Piney Ridge Trail and Fork Mountain Trail. (More info of area and map can be found here.) There are remains of a wire fence, 11 engraved tombstones, 12-15 fieldstones (some seem to be missing from depressions), and a couple of metal markers.
This additional info is found in a SNP NPS memorandum dated 7/27/54:
Dwyer - Plot #12
- Location: Approximately 1 1/2 - 2 miles below Range View Cabin on the Piney Ridge trail. Cemetery is about 100 feet off the trail.
- Tract number uncertain, possibly 114 or 115.
- Inactive: Last burial approximately 25 years ago.
- Number of burials: approximately 25.
- Descendants: D. M. Dwyer of Thornton Hollow.
Note: the dates for the earliest and latest burials are listed as such only because those are the markers where it is possible to get the month, day, and year. Mary G. Dwyer died in 1827. Mamie Bell Dwyer and another Mary Dwyer died in 1927. Of course, there are unmarked fieldstones which mark earlier deaths.