Purcell's Ground Cemetery

This is the largest and most exciting cemetery to find in Long Lake Provincial Park. You must find it by taking the Old St. Margaret’s Bay Road in Long Lake Provincial Park. The easiest way is to come in from Goodwood, (GPS coordinates N 44° 36.159 W 063° 40.424) but you can also start in on old Old Sambro Road side (GPS coordinates N 44° 36.532 W 063° 37.700). Once on this road, you must keep your eyes open for a trail leading to the north. This side trail is called the Old Post Road and can be found at the following coordinates: N 44° 36.416 W 063° 39.724. Along the Old Post Road, you will find the Purcell's Ground Cemetery located off the road. Keep walking until you see pink trail tapes leading into the woods to the left (west). It takes a ten minute bushwhack to get to this cemetery, which seems like it is buried in the woods away from everything, but there must have been more near here at the time. Follow the pink trail tapes that can lead you in, and the cemetery itself is at the following coordinates: N 44° 36.577 W 063° 38.934. There are eleven headstones in this fenced in cemetery. According to local historian Iris Shea the land around the cemetery originated with the Toler family. Peter Toler purchased a small piece of property from John Wagner, son of Thomas and established a working farm there around 1814, following his marriage to Jane Umlah a sister to John Wagner's wife. All of those buried at this site are descendants of Peter Toler. His only daughter Isabella is mother or grandmother to the people buried here.