This article is about the cemetery in Rhode Island. For the cemetery in Massachusetts, see North Burial Ground (Fall River, Massachusetts).
United States historic place
North Burial Ground
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Show map of Rhode Island
Show map of the United States
Location
Providence, Rhode Island
Built
1700
NRHP reference No.
77000003
[1]
Added to NRHP
September 13, 1977
Mowry Tavern (now demolished), a stone-ender on Abbott St. as it looked ca. 1885, with the Cemetery behind it
The North Burial Ground is a 110-acre (0.45 km2) cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island dating to 1700, the first public cemetery in Providence.[2] It is located north of downtown Providence, bounded by North Main Street, Branch Avenue, the Moshassuck River, and Cemetery Street. Its main entrance is at the junction of Branch and North Main. The burial ground is one of the larger municipal cemeteries in Southern New England, and it accepts 220 to 225 burials per year.[3]
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^Rogak, Lisa (2004). Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries. Globe Pequot. p. 159. ISBN 9780762730001.
^Hill, John (24 Jan 2015). "Providence's North Burial Ground is running out of room". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
and 26 Related for: North Burial Ground information
The NorthBurialGround is a 110-acre (0.45 km2) cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island dating to 1700, the first public cemetery in Providence. It is located...
The North Brisbane BurialGround was a former cemetery in the Town of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was in the area now known as the suburbs of Milton...
Calton BurialGround is a cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. It located at Calton Hill to the north-east of the city centre. The burialground was opened...
The Ascension Parish BurialGround, formerly known as the burialground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in...
must meet standards of "burial practice" and "customer relation" according to the GBC. More specifically, a hybrid burialground can be certified when it...
The Bradford BurialGround is a historic cemetery at 326 Salem Street in the Bradford section of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) cemetery...
A cemetery, burialground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise...
New Calton BurialGround is a burialground in Edinburgh. It was built as an overspill and functional replacement to Old Calton BurialGround and lies half...
The Moravian BurialGround is the burialground of the Moravian Congregation in London. The BurialGround is located in the grounds of Lindsey House in...
certain Aboriginal Australians, and some North American First Nations. A number of Native Americans used a burial tree as the last resting place for a dead...
Newton Slave BurialGround is an industrial heritage site and informal cemetery in Barbados. It was used by people enslaved at the adjacent Newton Plantation...
992667°W / 17.486139; -62.992667 The Godet African BurialGround is an unmarked historical burialground for enslaved African men, women and children located...
Island by steamboat for a second funeral service. She is interred in NorthBurialGround in Providence. Her husband is buried in an unmarked grave site in...
Bethel BurialGround is a historic African American cemetery located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, beneath part of the surface of Weccacoe Playground...
Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street. It is the burial location...
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects...
The Van Scoy BurialGround, historically significant for its connection to educational and agricultural practices, is a site located at Northwest Harbor...
The Flatbush African BurialGround or FABG is the site of a historic African-American cemetery dating to the 17th century at Church and Bedford Avenue...
51.6165°N 1.6605°W / 51.6165; -1.6605 Westmill Woodland BurialGround is a green burialground in the Vale of White Horse on the border of Oxfordshire...
Common Prayer as used for burial on land may be used; only instead of the words: We therefore commit [his] body to the ground, earth to earth, ... in sure...
The Sharp BurialGround, also known as the Albany Avenue Cemetery, is located on Albany Avenue (NY 32) in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a small...
building. The house was located on Abbott Street adjacent to the NorthBurialGround. The entire structure was demolished in 1900 to construct a triple...
Fair Hill BurialGround is a historic cemetery in the Fairhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by the Religious Society of Friends...
of 51 after suffering a heart attack. Charles Dow is interred in NorthBurialGround in Providence, Rhode Island. Dow Jones Indexes William Peter Hamilton...
Putney Old BurialGround is a public urban park and former cemetery in the London Borough of Wandsworth near Putney town centre. The park has an area...
Global Information
