Kitley-King Cemetery (Paul Ruster Park)

Within the 82-acre Paul Ruster Park, acquired by the city in 1970, sits the small Kitley-King Cemetery on the site of John Kitley's 80-acre farm, recorded in county deeds on December 16, 1825; the Kitley and King families buried their dead beside their own land, as was common at the time. Only two monuments remain intact today, for John W. King (1806-1893) and Francis Kitley, reached by six worn stone steps easy to miss from busy Prospect Street. Local legend, well known enough to have been written up by area paranormal investigators, holds that a boy killed near the nearby train tracks is buried in the foundation of his old house; visitors say they can hear him playing a harmonica along the wooded path to his grave, and some report seeing a ghostly young boy walking the road.