Mount Hope Cemetery (Boston)

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NRHP Reference # 09000767 Phone +1 617-635-7361		Area 51 ha Added to NRHP 25 September 2009

Location 355 Walk Hill Street, Boston, Massachusetts Address 355 Walk Hill St, Boston, MA 02131, USA Hours Closed today SundayClosedMonday8AM–4PMTuesday8AM–4PMWednesday8AM–4PMThursday8AM–4PMFriday8AM–4PMSaturday8AM–12PM Burials Susie Taylor, Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson, Philip Hale Similar Evergreen Cemetery, Forest Hills Cemetery, Bennington Street Burying G, Phipps Street Burying G, St Joseph Cemetery

Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. It was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It is the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.

Interments

Leonard Chadwick, Medal of Honor recipient.

George Dixon, first Canadian and first black world boxing champion.

Gottlieb Graupner, musician

Roland Hayes, lyric tenor, first African American to sing at Carnegie Hall

Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson, American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

Michael "King" Kelly, Hall of Fame baseball player

Susie Taylor, first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves, first black Army nurse

Theodore Dwight Weld, abolitionist

One British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Canadian Air Force officer of World War II.

References

Mount Hope Cemetery (Boston) Wikipedia

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