North Graveyard Arrangement

A repetition of a series of two,
twenty-foot lots separated by 7 1/2-foot paths ends at the southern edge
of the Kerr tract, an exact fit which would have been sought when the lots
were laid out. Likewise, repetition of the entire pattern brings the
survey exactly to the northern end of the property.
A similar analysis of the east/west
locations of the grave markers helps to establish, though not as
conclusively, the pattern of lot locations from east to west, with
roadways and paths as shown on the diagram. These locations are also
supported by the fact that the lots at the north end and adjacent to the
Kerr tract would exactly align with the boundaries of lots 15, 16, and 17
of the Brickell Addition.
The only firm clue to lot numbers is given
in the Daily Dispatch of April 26, 1872, which implies that lots 139 and
171 were in the southern one hundred foot strip. The papers also name in
this strip the Cool lot and the Cooper lot, which from deed records may
have been numbers 180 and 166, respectively. Lots 525, 529, and 532
[assumed to be the correct reading of what is recorded at the courthouse
as 352], which were sold in 1849 and 1851 for eight dollars each, must
have been laid out in roadways after August, 1848. Since these numbers
represent the last lots laid out, and since no letter-designated lots are
named in any deeds, it seems likely that the lots set aside for single
graves numbered roughly one hundred and were designated by letters.
If the lots in the triangular-shaped areas
on the High street side of the Graveyard were the single-grave lots; and
if three roadway lots are included in each of the north-south roadways in
the south 100-foot strip; and if the single-grave portion of this strip
were counted as just one lot; and not counting the western tier of lots
which was lost to Lincoln Goodale's claim, then the plan would have
exactly 100 lots in the strip, as mentioned by the newspaper at the time
of the condemnation.
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