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Riverside Cemetery (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)

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MPS
  
Pawtucket MRA

Area
  
14 ha

Year built
  
1874

Burials
  
John W. Davis

NRHP Reference #
  
83003853

Phone
  
+1 401-725-4344

Added to NRHP
  
18 November 1983

Riverside Cemetery (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)

Location
  
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Architect
  
Dexter, Edward & Walter; R. Smith Mowry

Address
  
724 Pleasant St, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA

Similar
  
Mt St Mary Cemetery, Notre Dame Cemetery, Swan Point Cemetery, Walnut Hill Cemetery, North Burial Ground

Riverside Cemetery is an historic cemetery at 745 Pleasant Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It occupies a parcel of land about 34 acres (14 ha) in size between Pleasant Street and the Seekonk River, and just north of the much larger Swan Point Cemetery in neighboring Providence. The cemetery was established in 1874, and is Pawtucket's instance of a rural cemetery.

The cemetery's creation was championed by John W. Davis, a local politician who later served two terms as Governor of Rhode Island, and was for many years the cemetery's resident manager, living in the cemetery manager's house, which was built around the time of the cemetery's founding. The cemetery has been run by descendents of John W. Davis since its inception in 1874.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Riverside Cemetery (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) Wikipedia