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Old Burying Ground (Littleton, Massachusetts)

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NRHP Reference #
  
01001560

Year built
  
1721

Area
  
5,060 m²

Added to NRHP
  
5 February 2002

Old Burying Ground (Littleton, Massachusetts)

Location
  
Littleton, Massachusetts

The Old Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on King Street near the junction with White Street in Littleton, Massachusetts. Established in 1721, it was the town's first formal burying ground, and the only one for about one hundred years. The cemetery has 340 grave markers, dating from 1721 to 1909, although documentary evidence exists for more burials. It is a long, narrow strip of land, in which the graves are arrayed in a roughly rectilinear fashion, with older graves near the front and newer ones in the back.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

References

Old Burying Ground (Littleton, Massachusetts) Wikipedia