“Digging The Grave for the Unidentified,” Fairview Cemetery, Boyertown, PA, January, 1908.

Credit: Courtesy of the Boyertown Area Historical Society

On January 13, 1908, the Boyertown Opera House Fire killed 170 people, about one-tenth of Boyertown’s population.  In the cold days that followed, 105 new graves were dug in the Fairview Cemetery.