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Old North Cemetery (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)

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NRHP Reference #
  
78000218

Area
  
6,100 m²

Added to NRHP
  
8 March 1978

Address
  
Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Year built
  
1751

Old North Cemetery (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)

Location
  
Maplewood Ave., Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Burials
  
Woodbury Langdon, Edmund Roberts, John Hart, Clement Storer

Similar
  
Point of Graves Burial Gr, Proprietors Burying Ground, Harmony Grove Cemetery, STREET

Old North Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Maplewood Avenue in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is a roughly 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) parcel of land north of the city center on the shore of North Mill Pond. Its earliest burials are dated to 1751, although it was not formally established as a cemetery until 1753. It is the largest of the city's 18th century cemeteries, and is remarkable for the relatively distant locations some of the stonecarvers came from whose work appears in it. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Notable burials

  • Capt. Edmund Roberts, father of Edmund Roberts (diplomat)
  • John Langdon, governor of New Hampshire, one of the first two U.S. senators from the state
  • Woodbury Langdon, merchant, delegate from New Hampshire to Continental Congress, New Hampshire Superior Court justice, brother of John Langdon
  • Prince Whipple, slave, freed by William Whipple in 1781
  • William Whipple, signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence, brigadier general in New Hampshire Militia
  • References

    Old North Cemetery (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) Wikipedia