[ 32 ] Pleasant Hill Cemetery and Oakdale Cemetery

At stop light on Route 6 near Police/Fire Station,
take Gross Hill Road to Cemetery Road on left

Pleasant Hill Cemetery was established here in 1816 beside the Methodist Church, which in 1842 was rebuilt closer to the center of Town. In 1858 the Congregationalists developed Oakdale Cemetery under the leadership of Dr. Thomas Stone, when the Old Town Cemetery near the head of Duck Creek was no longer adequate.

A plaque on a post to the right of the main entrance to the cemetery tells us “This tablet given by bequest of and placed in honor of Frank R. Gill 1856 - 1915.” Frank R. Gill, born in Wellfleet, “became a spice grinder in Somerville, and he was of the 8th generation of the Gill line.”

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Now a Memorial at the Gardinier plot toward the north end of Pleasant Hill Cemetery, this great granite grinding stone, measuring 5 feet in diameter, was sunk in Wellfleet Harbor where it served as a base for a mooring until Lawrence “Duffy” Gardinier retrieved it.