Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut

Grove Street Cemetery is a cemetery near New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. The grounds sit at about 43 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 309 notable people buried here, including Benoit Mandelbrot, Josiah Willard Gibbs and Lars Onsager. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 207546. The nearest other listed cemetery is New Haven Crypt Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is McClam Funeral Home in New Haven, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 163 cemeteries we list in New Haven County, and 82 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in New Haven County dates to 1793. 1 of the 163 listings in New Haven County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, New Haven. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 40 scientists, 33 writers, 13 physicians, 11 US representatives, 10 artists, 9 inventors and engineers, 8 business leaders, 7 Civil War veterans.

• Benoit Mandelbrot1924-2010
  Polish-born, French and American mathematician
• Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903
  American scientist
• Lars Onsager1903-1976
  American physical chemist and theoretical physicist
• Thomas A. Steitz1940-2018
  American biochemist
• Charles Goodyear1800-1860
  American inventor
• Noah Webster1758-1843
  American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author
• Eli Whitney1765-1825
  American inventor
• James Dwight Dana1813-1895
  American mineralogist, scientist and zoologist
• Othniel Charles Marsh1831-1899
  American paleontologist
• Michael Rostovtzeff1870-1952
  Russian historian of ancient history
• Roger Sherman1721-1793
  Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States
• Jaroslav Pelikan1923-2006
  US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale

People whose Wikidata entry gives Grove Street Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.

• New Haven Crypt Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Center Church Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Christian cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Evergreen Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Cemetery

  1.2 mi
• Mapledale Cemetery (historical)

  New Haven, CT
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Saint Bernards Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Christian cemetery

  1.5 mi
• City Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Municipal cemetery

  1.5 mi
• Westville Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Cemetery

  1.5 mi
• Congregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Church cemetery

  1.5 mi
• West River Memorial Park

  New Haven, CT
  Memorial park

  1.6 mi
• B'nail Scholom Cemetery

  New Haven, CT
  Jewish cemetery

  1.6 mi

• McClam Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Haven · (203) 786-4732
  0.3 mi
• Weller Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Haven · (203) 624-6912
  0.4 mi
• Celentano Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Haven · (203) 865-1234
  0.4 mi
• Howard K. Hill Funeral Services

  Funeral home · New Haven · (203) 624-4477
  0.6 mi
• Curvin K Council Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Haven · (203) 865-5100
  0.6 mi
• Lumpinsky Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Haven
  0.7 mi

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