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Description: Picture inside the Harmony Society Cemetery in Harmony, Pennsylvania, on March 3, 2007. There are no grave markers, because the Harmony Society didn't believe those were necessary. A nearby historical marker indicates that about 100 people were buried here. The Harmonites sold the town of Harmony, PA, to Mennonites in 1814 and moved. In 1869, the Mennonites built the stone wall around the Harmonite cemetery with the unique revolving stone door (seen in the distance at the center of this image). This may have been done to repay financial debt to the Harmonites, and/or perhaps because they didn't want to accidentally dig anybody up (because the graves weren't marked). The little white dots floating in the air in this image are snowflakes, it was kinda cold and snowy the day this picture was taken.
Title: HarmonySocietyCemeteryinHarmonyPA
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