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The first cemetery for Company Shops (the original name of the Burlington) was located in an area without any streets or roads, except Front Street, which ended at the cemetery.
In 1890, Elon College opened. About three years later, after Burlington was incorporated, merchants wanted to open a road to Elon, so they could get the students' business. The city council of Burlington voted 3-2 to move the bodies to the new Pine Hill cemetery. When the state government got wind that the city was moving the bodies without permission, Mayor Bill Hall, and the entire city council, were arrested. Later, the two councilmen who voted against the measure were released.
After a trial, the remaining council members were fined and sentenced to the penitentiary, but their sentences were suspended. Eventually, the townspeople gave permission to have family members reburied at Pine Hill and Front Street was opened all the way to Elon. The first documented burial at Pine Hill was Leonora Stafford, who died May 8, 1889, when she was 11 years old.
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1878 - 1899 (21 years)
