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Place · burying ground · 1729

Old Hill Burying Ground

The town’s hilltop burying ground, laid out in 1729 on what was called Snelling’s Hill, across Greenleaf Street from Bartlett Mall and the Frog Pond. Enter by the Greenleaf Street gate.

Laid out
1729
On the walk
The Rail Trail: Mills, Ropewalks and Old Hill · Churchyards and Burying Grounds

Graves to find

  1. Alexander Caldwell 1747–1832 Rum distiller; his works stood at the foot of Kent Street.
  2. Rev. Charles W. Milton 1767–1837 London-born minister of the Fourth Religious Society on Prospect Street.
  3. Timothy Dexter 1748–1806 The eccentric merchant “Lord” Dexter, who left a fund for the town’s poor.
  4. Charles Herbert 1757–1808 Revolutionary sailor held in Mill Prison, England, whose journal was published in 1847.
  5. Richard Hunnewell 1773–1839 Militia captain and keeper of the Powder House from 1823 to 1836.
  6. Fortune died 1804 Enslaved in the Dalton household on State Street; the Daltons set up the stone.
  7. John C. H. Young died 1889 African American barbershop owner.

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

The map pin for this place is approximate.