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Lawrence Street Cemetery

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Location
  
Methuen, Massachusetts

Architectural style
  
Late Victorian, Other

NRHP Reference #
  
84002399

Year built
  
1832

Architect
  
Unknown

MPS
  
Methuen MRA

Area
  
6,475 m²

Added to NRHP
  
20 January 1984

Lawrence Street Cemetery

The Lawrence Street Cemetery or more commonly known as "the Village Burying Ground", is a historic cemetery on Lawrence Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.

Methuen's third oldest cemetery, it was founded in 1832 when the center of town was shifted west from Meeting House Hill to Gaunt Square. Late in the 19th century, wealthy industrialist Edward Searles built the 8 foot granite wall on the sides facing his estate. In the cemetery rests Searles siblings, parents and wife Mary Hopkins Searles.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

Lawrence Street Cemetery Wikipedia