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Westlawn Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts)

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NRHP Reference #
  
04001433

Area
  
6,900 m²

Added to NRHP
  
5 January 2005

Address
  
Westford, MA 01886, USA

Year built
  
1895

Westlawn Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts)

Location
  
Westford, Massachusetts

Westlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Concord Road at Country Road in Westford, Massachusetts. Established in 1761 as the West Burying Ground, it is one of the town's oldest cemeteries. It occupies a roughly triangular plot of 1.7 acres (0.69 ha). There are approximately 400 marked burials, generally laid out in rows running east-west. One of its most prominent burials is that of Colonel John Robinson, who led Westford's minutemen in the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Westlawn Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts) Wikipedia