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Oak Grove Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

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NRHP Reference #
  
14000176

Phone
  
+1 508-979-1550 ext. 510

Burials
  
Paul Clayton, John Duffey

Area
  
12 ha

Added to NRHP
  
28 April 2014

Oak Grove Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

Location
  
Parker St., New Bedford, Massachusetts

Address
  
185 Parker St, New Bedford, MA 02740, USA

Year built
  
1843 (relocated burials date to 1798)

The Oak Grove Cemetery is an historic cemetery on Parker Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It consists of two parcels, separated by Parker Street, northwest of the city's central business district. The older portion of the cemetery, that south of Parker Street, was established in 1843, while the northern section was acquired and developed between 1870 and 1896. Most of the cemetery is laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style of winding lanes, although the northernmost section has a more open layout, made partly due to complaints about the cluttered nature of the rural cemetery style.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

References

Oak Grove Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts) Wikipedia