About Prospect Hill Cemetery
Prospect Hill Cemetery is a church cemetery near Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It lies about 0.7 mi northeast of Nantucket. The grounds sit at about 46 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 21 notable people buried here, including Karl Landsteiner, Maria Mitchell and Robert Benchley. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 602547. 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 Prospect Hill Cemetery
Among them: 7 writers, 4 journalists, 2 actors, 2 architects, 2 artists, 2 physicians, 2 scientists, 1 football player.
- Karl Landsteiner1868-1943Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
- Maria Mitchell1818-1889American astronomer
- Robert Benchley1889-1945American writer and actor
- Peter Benchley1940-2006American author
- David Halberstam1934-2007American writer, journalist, historian
- Christopher Allport1947-2008American actor
- Barker Burnell1798-1843American politician
- Elsie Fox1902-1993Cuban-born American screenwriter
- Nathaniel Benchley1915-1981American author
- H. Marshall Gardiner1883-1942Canadian American photographer and postcard publisher
- Hugh Tallant1869-1952American architect
- Lewis H. Elverson1912-1997American football coach
Show all 21 notable burials
- R. Stanley-Brown1889-1944American architect
- Anne Ramsdell Congdon1873-1958American illustrator
- Edward G. Stanley-Brown1923-1998American physician
- George Starbuck1811-1888
- Harold Havelock Kynett1889-1973
- Katharine Stanley-Brown1892-1972American writer
- Mary Swift Coffin1851-1935
- Robert Brown1912-2008American journalist and editor
- Robert Wrisley Atkins1889-1947
People whose Wikidata entry gives Prospect Hill 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
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What Prospect Hill 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
- Saint Marys CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.1 mi
- Friends Burial GroundNantucket, MAQuaker cemetery0.3 mi
- Colored CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Prospect Hill CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Unitarian CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Old Town CemeteryNantucket, MAMunicipal cemetery0.6 mi
- Old North CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery0.6 mi
- African Baptist CemeteryNantucket, MABaptist cemetery0.6 mi
- New Town CemeteryNantucket, MAMunicipal cemetery0.8 mi
- Miacomet Indian Burial GroundNantucket, MACemetery1.2 mi
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