People always ask who is buried in the tiny park behind Rose River Inn Bed and Breakfast.
The answer is no one. But there is a plaque in the ground and the place does look a little haunted, joke inn owners Pam and David Armstrong, eying the grounds of Post Office Park while their Chihuahua sniffs at a pile of deer droppings almost as big as she is.
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