Along Hegele Street in Beaumont’s Pear Orchard Neighborhood sits a complex of four historic cemeteries. They are the Pear Orchard, Blanchette, Nona Colored and Blessed Sacrament Cemeteries and ...

The oldest recorded burial in the Pear Orchard Cemetery dates to 1956, but the cemetery was likely in use as far back as the 1870s. The cemetery contains 470 surviving headstones, but records show ...

Also, its flesh was supposed to be greenish white, “but June’s pear doesn’t have that,” Cormier said. Two years ago, Cormier, by then an orchard assistant at the Maine Organic Farmers and ...

Late last month, over 100 people gathered in the Pear Orchard neighborhood to witness the dedication of the Pear Orchard Cemetery as a Historic Texas Cemetery. The recognition has been bestowed by ...