Last Wednesday I took my eleven year old granddaughter to the Methodist Cemetery located on a road built during the civil war. She had been there are few years ago but this was horrify. Murdock Mill Road is a city street that goes for one block off of River Road just as River Road merges into Wisconsin Ave. We were meeting a man who is going to level and clean some of the tombstones. When I was there I pointed out some of the sights that pertained to me. But this particular day we concentrated on a large truck who was trying to turn around. He Came a hare within hitting the NEW fence. The exit from what was at one time a Sears Store is having pent house built above it and it is blocked off at the moment. We have put in cement barricade to keep this from happening. We will have to do more. We have had our railing up the steps knock down no less than four times. When I left the cemetery I took a right and drove down Wisconsin Ave. To Georgetown to find a nice place to eat. My hope was to take her to Arlington Cemetery to visit her grandfather's grave. That was another night mare. I keep getting stuck in the wrong lane and could not get over in time to turn to get on Memorial Bridge. I finally turned the car around and drown back to Frederick, MD, where we had started from in the first place. I am determined that this old cemetery that was founded 150 years ago is not going to loose its character to what some folks take to be progress. Margaret Amundson, CG The Methodist Cemetery is located behind Eldbrooke Methodist Church and was formerly deed in 1855. We Will be marking that anniversary with a program at the cemetery on October 2005. All are invited. The program will consist of two lectures relating to genealogy and we will acknowledge the Tenleytown Twelve who accepted the ownership of the land from a burial ground. You will hear much about the families and how they intermarried to Georgetown.