Tow Cemetery

Tow Cemetery reflects the early history of the community that formed around the Bluffton-Tow Saltworks. The 1850 death date of eight-year-old Margaret R. Thorp, said to have died from a snakebite, documents the age of this burial ground. An obelisk dated 1846 serves as a memorial for a Morgan family member buried elsewhere. John F. Morgan, a successful fur hatmaker, arrived here in 1853, the same year William Tow and family settled Tow Valley. After a long tradition of care by area families, an association formed in the 1950s took oversight of the site. The cemetery endures as a chronicle of the pioneers and generations that make up the Tow area's heritage.

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