In this Oct. 18, 2016 photo, the town hearse is housed in the recently renovated town hearse house at the entrance to the Brookside Cemetery in Chester, Vt. The adjacent town tomb also was renovated. Horse-drawn hearses were once ordinary in villages across the region. They were kept in “hearse houses” in town cemeteries and used to carry the deceased from wake to final resting place. They faded into history with the advent of the automobile and as professional funeral directors replaced the part-time undertakers who shared them. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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