Catoctin Cemetery stood on a hill overlooking an ore pit near the furnace, with a pathway running through it and the noise of nearby work making it an unquiet place in life and death for enslaved ironworkers. Its visible, public setting raises questions about why the burial ground was placed where strangers and slaveowners could see it and what that reveals about the lives, funerals, and remembrance of the people buried there. A poetic voice evokes those buried as people forced to migrate against their will, brought over in ships in chains, sold repeatedly, and worked with extreme brutality before coming to rest there. During a 1979 archaeological investigation, ninety local quartzite burial markers were identified and carefully documented, with no markings observed, and markers from excavated graves were later placed around trees in the undisturbed area of the cemetery.