"STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"

This story goes along with the city's $86,000 Downtown Master Plan. In the past council at on time or another has approved building homes below the river level[Millstone} . fifty feet from the mainline of the CSX Railroad {Asper Commons}. In a swamp.[Heisley Park] and if given a chance in the old Diamond Soup Pond. This time we have outdone ourselves, an old time resident sent me an email from the Lake County Genealogical Society about the Washington Street Cemetery. located to the east of Harvey High School that buried people up until the 1860s when the city purchased Evergreen Cemetery.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlegs/painesville/washingt.html

Now reading the article no one knows for sure if all, some of the buried there were removed. No records were kept.
From the article:
The few remaining gravestones have been buried two feet deep, the paths trimmed and the undergrowth cut down and carted away. [These people could fit in here today}
A plat of the grounds was made by L.K. Pierson, to enable anyone later to locate graves.
In the ealy 1890s the Painesville Board Of Education saw the need to buid a new high school. The vacant land on Washington St. attracted their attention.
The City transfered the land on December 5th 1896, Since that time the land has been part of the high school grounds.
The fact that some of the graves had never been removed has periodically come back to haunt school officials.
Someone once made a movie about something like this "There Here"
I guess it shows you don't know where your going until you know where you have been.
A copy of the article was delivered to city hall.