About New Town Cemetery
New Town Cemetery is a municipal cemetery near Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It lies about 0.8 mi north of Nantucket. The grounds sit at about 30 feet above sea level. Wikidata records one notable person buried here: Jessie Holliday. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1974763. The nearest other listed cemetery is African Baptist Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northwest. It is one of 14 cemeteries we list in Nantucket County, and 13 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Nantucket. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at New Town Cemetery
Among them: 1 artist.
- Jessie Holliday1884-1915British artist
People whose Wikidata entry gives New Town 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.
Map
41.27212, -70.09526
What New Town Cemetery offers
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.
Nearby cemeteries
- African Baptist CemeteryNantucket, MABaptist cemetery0.3 mi
- Colored CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Unitarian CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Prospect Hill CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Miacomet Indian Burial GroundNantucket, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Prospect Hill CemeteryNantucket, MAChurch cemetery0.8 mi
- Friends Burial GroundNantucket, MAQuaker cemetery0.9 mi
- Old Town CemeteryNantucket, MAMunicipal cemetery1.2 mi
- Old North CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery1.2 mi
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