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Old Westfield Cemetery

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NRHP Reference #
  
10000578

Year built
  
1728

Area
  
4 ha

Added to NRHP
  
26 August 2010

Old Westfield Cemetery

Location
  
320 North St., Killingly, Connecticut

The Old Westfield Cemetery is located at 320 North Street in the Danielson borough of Killingly, Connecticut. The cemetery was established in 1720, not long after Killingly's incorporation (1708). It occupies a 10-acre (4.0 ha) parcel on the north side of North Street, and is bounded in part by the Five Mile River. Its main entry is marked by granite pillars placed in 1920, giving access to a perimeter road. The cemetery is laid out in a form typical of 18th-century and early 19th-century, with graves lined up in relatively even rows, avoiding the mid-19th century rural cemetery movement. Most of its 450 graves date to the 19th century.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

References

Old Westfield Cemetery Wikipedia