Pine trees
and
Rolling hills.
Duck Creek Cemetery is a lovely cemetery located only a short distance from Wellfleet Harbor. It has a park like feel to it and tall and mature pines trees scattered throughout it.
Unfortunately most of the gravestones were made of softer stones and the harsh Cape Cod winters did a job on them. Some are lying on the ground, others are broken in half and many others are now impossible to read.
The oldest ones I could find date to the early 1800s but I suspect some are much older. I names and dates and now lost forever.
A beautiful place to take a walk, the graveyard has lots of rolling hills and although you can't see the harbor from the cemetery when the wind is right you can get a sniff of it. A scenic if morose cemetery that will one day become part of the earth again. read more