Mount Vernon Cemetery
National Register of Historic Places

Mount Vernon Cemetery

West Boylston, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Listed
May 28, 2008
Type
Site
Period
Colonial
Ref No.
08000465

About this property

Mount Vernon Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Church Street in West Boylston, Massachusetts. It is actually composed of three separate cemeteries, which were eventually united under municipal ownership in the early decades of the 20th century. The oldest of them, the Beaman cemetery, dates to c. 1757 and is the town's oldest cemetery. It was forced to relocate to its present location next to the 1852 Mount Vernon Cemetery by the creation in 1904 of the Wachusett Reservoir; the association which owned the cemetery turned its resources over to the town ten years later. The Old Burying Ground was established c. 1790, and is the only originally municipal portion of the cemetery. The 1852 Mount Vernon Cemetery portion is the largest of the three, was designed in the rural cemetery style popular in the mid-19th century, and is where the cemetery's 1891 Holbrook Chapel is located. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Location

West Boylston, Worcester County, Massachusetts
42.36392, -71.77981

Categories

ARTARCHITECTURECOMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTSOCIAL HISTORY
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Sources

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When was Mount Vernon Cemetery listed on the National Register?

Mount Vernon Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 2008.

What type of historic resource is Mount Vernon Cemetery?

Mount Vernon Cemetery is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Mount Vernon Cemetery?

The period of significance for Mount Vernon Cemetery is recorded as the colonial era, specifically around 1757.

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