NRHP Reference # 85000042 Year built 1813 Burials Luis R. Esteves | Founded 1813 Added to NRHP 2 January 1985 | |
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Location At the foot of Cuesta Vieja
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Architect Spanish Corps of Engineers | ||
Old Urban Cemetery, also known as Cementerio Municipal, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, is a cemetery with burials back to 1813 or 1814. Near to the town of Aguadilla's north entrance, it spreads between the beach and the foot of the mountain, and is enclosed by mortar and stone walls. Many of its older tombs, make of bricks, stone and mortar, were damaged in a 1918 earthquake (presumably the 1918 San Fermín earthquake).
The cemetery began to be used when burials were no longer allowed in the churchyard. Graves include that of poet-laureate José de Jesús Esteves, painter Rafael Arroyo Gely, and Luis R. Esteves (the first Puerto Rican graduate of West Point).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
References
Old Urban Cemetery Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA