In traditional cemeteries, the bodies are buried facing east (feet to the east, heads to the west). This was the tradition for centuries. Now, both secular and religious cemeteries have abandoned this layout for whatever is most efficient, for the older sites, it’s always an East focus. Except here.

Here, it’s all backwards, with the plots facing north-south instead. Why this was done, no one really knows. Some blame a gravedigger who was confused. Others say that the above-ground plots were relocated in 1880 to move the town closer to a rail line, and everything was mis-laid wrong.

Still, it’s an oddity in America.