Millburn Cemetery

Going through this cemetery you will notice many of the names are now street names in the area. This is a smaller cemetery in the area.

Now, I’ve stomped a lot of cemeteries in my day but there’s just something… unusual…about this one. True that in it’s day it was more like a park than a cemetery with its sprinkler system, well house, two seat outhouse and actual park donated by the Strang family. But the water dried up in 1940 and now the place has a sort of abandoned feel to it even though it’s very much cared for.
The well house and the outhouse make a creepy central feature, one unlike anything I’ve ever experienced in any cemetery before. Crumbling, rubble-​strewn, abandoned, the well house is unbelievably scary in the fall when darkness falls early over the place. The Southern fence is caving in and I can’t help but feel when I’m in there that the woods behind the cemetery want the two areas to merge.
The graves date back to the 19^th century and it’s an excellent place to get a glimpse of Lake county history. It’s just a few miles North of Gurnee and it’s a place you simply have to visit when your up in Lake County.
Caught a picture of an orb in there once that you can see on my blog, as well as a video tour of the cemetery and the creepy well house. Just go to
and click on the Millburn Cemetery video. The orb picture is in the blog below it.