Oak Grove Cemetery (Dixboro)

Oak Grove Cemetery

 

The Village of Dixboro was primarily a farming community, revolving around the mills located on Fleming Creek.  It remained that way until 1925 when Plymouth Road was constructed.  The Oak Grove Cemetery Company of Dixboro was organized on February 24, 1860.  It contains headstones dated as early as 1831.  Many of the very first settlers, however, are located in a now deserted cemetery situated to the east of Oak Grove on Cherry Hill Road.  These headstones date back to the late 1700s and early 1800s.  The land for Oak Grove was purchased for the sum of $25.00 and was described as "commencing thirty-three rods and eighteen links from the angle of the Ann Arbor and Plymouth Road...and running in a southeast direction nine rods to a blazed yellow oak tree..."

 

Some of the earliest settlers buried here are members of the Mullholland family.  Martha Mullholland is reputed to be the Dixboro ghost, who haunted local residents until her death was found to be a murder.

 

WASHTENAW COUNTY SU-40 HISTORICAL MARKER

 

Submitted by

Bryan Arnold

@nanowhiskers