NRHP Reference # 14000062 Phone +1 508-979-1550 Added to NRHP 19 March 2014 | Area 6,840 m² Year built 1804 | |
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Location S 2nd and Griffin Sts., New Bedford, Massachusetts Address 2-198 Griffin Ct, New Bedford, MA 02740, USA Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hours | ||
The Griffin Street Cemetery is an historic cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Located at the junction of South 2nd and Griffin Streets, and abutting JFK Memorial Highway to the east, it is the city's oldest surviving cemetery. The cemetery plot is about 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) in size, and roughly follows the rectilinear grid of the city streets. It was established in 1804, not far from a Quaker cemetery whose remains were later reinterred in the city's Rural Cemetery. The cemetery has about 230 grave stones, but it is suspected that a significant number of graves are unmarked. The oldest grave dates to 1804, the newest to 1855.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
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