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‘We can only guess …’: History, mysteries buried in Woodstock’s 164-year-old Oakland Cemetery

By Morgen Neuhauser news@thewoodstockindependent.com Frank E. Hanaford, a Civil War soldier buried in Woodstock’s Oakland Cemetery, escaped the infamous Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville in 1864. Just a month after […]

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Photo Detectives, did you recognize this gas station as the current location of Frisbie & Lohmeyer Insurance? In 1964, Maurice and Leland Brasile took over from the Goodall family, changing […]

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