102 POTTER’S FIELD

945 N Garrison Street

The traditional resting place of indigents, transients, and those without friends or next of kin and too poor to afford a grave of their own. Each grave has its own simple low granite marker inscribed solely with a number. A simple, chain-linked fence surrounds the area. The city stores burial records in the Clerk’s Office at the Town Hall (217), although records of the oldest plots are spotty at best, with many lacking any information at all.

Notable Folk

The grounds are maintained, and graves dug, by Patrick O’Hare and Jeremiah Williams. Both do their very best to avoid staying beyond nightfall due to a strange sense of being watched and the disquieting sounds that sometimes can be heard beneath their feet.

Historical

Every so often, medical students from St. Mary’s Teaching Hospital (626) have used the address for Potter’s Field in a variety of pranks. The most popular “hoot” is inviting freshman students to a dinner at “Dr. Potter’s.”

Strangeness

Between 1900-1905 there was a spate of grave robberies that remain unsolved and completely unexplained, given the lack of valuables anyone is interred here with.

Neighborhood: Northside

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