Place · burying ground · 1800

Highland Cemetery

A hillside cemetery on Hill Street laid out in 1800, first called the New Hill Cemetery. Enter at the sign opposite Boylston Street.

Graves to find

Peter Romily 1838–1898 Cook who came to Newburyport on a ship from Barbados and ran a restaurant near Elbow Alley.
The Pearson family The ship’s-biscuit bakers whose firm became part of Nabisco.
Sarah E. Smith 1831–1873 Union Army nurse.
James Averill 1845–1901 Civil War soldier of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, later a boatbuilder.
Joseph Alley 1804–1880 Organ builder; his 1834 organ is in the Unitarian church.
Laura Coombs Hills 1859–1952 Miniature painter, later known for her flower pastels.
George C. Gray 1849–1927 Navy veteran of the Civil War, chef and Market Square coffee-house owner.

Photographs, old views and ephemera for this place are still to come.