The Carter Crypt
Then when the ample season
Warmed us, waned and went,
We gave to the leaves no graves,
To the robin gone no name,
Nor thought at the birds' return
Of their sourceless dim descent,
And we read no loss in the leaf,
But a freshness ever the same.
The leaf first learned of years
One not forgotten fall;
Of lineage now, and loss
These latter singers tell,
Of a year when the birds now still
Were all one choiring call
Till the unreturning leaves
Imperishably fell.
"Then"
~Richard Wilbur~
Here we find the final resting place for some of
the more illustrious members of the Carter family.
Zachariah, Sarah, Howard Sr., Vera, Phillips, Jeremiah,
Anne, Terrance, Lily, Gerald and Mona are
all entombed here in grand fashion. Their passings
were usually marked with little fanfare or ceremony.
Deep in the Vault, one finds many small niches for those Carters
whose remains were never recovered, such as the intrepid explorer
Cecil, the aviatrix Ernestine, the whaling twins Jonas and Joseph,
and fallen war heros such as Alex, Winston, and Tristan.
For personal reasons, many Carters willed that they be buried in
the Carter Cemetery, which is located northeast of the Crypt.
Would you like to venture inside?
East will take you back to the Mansion, while
west will take you off the property and into the
West Woods. To the south lies the Miskatonic
Riverbank, and to the north, the Smokehouse.
