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A child’s playhouse in a cemetery

A child’s playhouse traditionally conjures fun and innocent times, however the one in Hope Hill Cemetery in Medina, TN takes on a much more somber tone.  It is the gravesite of Dorothy Marie Harvey who died in 1931 at 5 years of age. Dorothy and her family were passing through Medina, Tennessee on their way North to find […]

 

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