NRHP Reference # 09000716 Added to NRHP 16 September 2009 | Year built 1804 | |
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Tyringham Cemetery is a historic cemetery section just outside the historic center of Tyringham, Massachusetts. The 3.67 acres (1.49 ha) property lies on the west side of Church Street, opposite the Union Church. The historically designated portion of the cemetery excludes a 4 acres (1.6 ha) parcel that was purchased in the 2000s.
The historic cemetery was the site of Tyringham's first meetinghouse, built c. 1779, although its precise location is not known. It contains more than 800 gravestones, dating from 1797 to the present. The earliest stones were generally made for marble, which was quarried from nearby Berkshire County towns, while later monuments were made of granite.
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