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In June 2010, the town of Dracut authorized the allocation of $ 30,000 towards the repair of
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others in marble). The cost of the damage was estimated to be around $ 10,000. The
Hildreth Family Cemetery, gated and locked all year, was untouched. The perpetrator turned himself in two weeks later upon seeing pictures of the destroyed headstones in the
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A warning against grave robbing and disrespect, on the inner gate to the
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