VINE LAKE 
PRESERVATION TRUST
Founded to preserve, enhance, interpret, and celebrate Medfield’s historic Vine Lake Cemetery
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Vine Lake Preservation Trust
P.O. Box 266
Medfield, MA 02052-0266

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Contact the Trust   Stories of Interest

The Family of Samuel Green -

              by Marian Pierre-Louis

       

An African American family of some means who resided in Medfield during the 1800s.

Learn more about this remarkable family

From Our House to Vine Lake Cemetery:

             Uncanny Connections - by Maria Baler

         

How a Medfield family came to know their home’s history, the people who lived there, and their burial lot in the cemetery.  

Continue reading about the Bent/Baler connection


The Sampson Stones - by Robert Tucker Gregg


Perhaps the cemetery’s most intriguing mystery

about two perforated stones.  Why are these stones

so different?



The Saga of Cesar Hunt alias Peter Warren -

               by Robert Tucker Gregg


An African American slave who bought his freedom,

served in the Revolutionary War, and lived in Medfield. Find out more about Peter

Missing Medfield Civil War Soldier Found-

       by George Gray


I became interested in Daniel McMahon, a Medfield soldier who was killed in a battle a few miles…

Where is Daniel today?

Another Civil War Soldier: Once Lost But Now           Found - by Robert Tucker Gregg


From his death on 6 April 1865 at Poplar Grove

Church, Virginia to the Spring of 2011, Gabriel Strang was a Civil War soldier… Discover more about Gabriel