Missing Monuments, Plots and Plats: A Cemetery's Unearthed History
Family, volunteers honor the man and the story behind the reclaimed Higgins Cemetery.
Nearly 200 years after his death, James Higgins could be about to get his monument back. Fifty years after the death of the Montgomery County planter and Revolutionary War veteran, Higgins’ family erected an obelisk monument where he was buried on what was a sprawling family farm in Rockville. Today, the obelisk is gone and the plot, in a neighborhood known as Spring Lake Park, is within earshot of traffic on Rockville Pike and within sight of construction cranes at the Parklawn Building on Fisher Avenue. But unlike the case for much of the 20th century, the plot is being preserved by a group of volunteers, historians and Higgins descendants. On Saturday, the group, known as the Higgins Cemetery Historic Preservation Association, Inc., …
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Buddy Wesley Thomas Vickers
6:38 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
I lived in Springlake Park in about 1963 untill 1967 and played in that spot a lot. If I remember right, there was a part of the Little family still living there and I played with their children a lot. I still have a scare on my rump from being bit by their German Sheapard dog one day as we played in their side yard. That plot of land was not totaly forgoten by everyone. more ›