Cambridge Cemetery in North Brighton, Massachusetts

Cambridge Cemetery is a cemetery near North Brighton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It lies about 0.6 mi south of North Brighton. The grounds sit at about 20 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 60 notable people buried here, including William James, Henry James and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 600883. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Auburn Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Stanton Funeral Service, Inc. in Watertown, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 158 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Middlesex County dates to 1649. 9 of the 284 listings in Middlesex County have a phone number or website on record.

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

Among them: 13 writers, 6 scientists, 4 baseball players, 3 actors, 3 architects, 3 artists, 2 Civil War veterans, 2 journalists.

• William James1842-1910
  American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
• Henry James1843-1916
  American and British writer
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt1868-1921
  American astronomer and human calculator
• William Dean Howells1837-1920
  American author, critic, and playwright
• Benjamin Peirce1809-1880
  American mathematician
• Sam Langford1883-1956
  Canadian boxer
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson1823-1911
  American soldier, Unitarian minister and author
• William Wells Brown1814-1884
  American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian
• Alice James1848-1892
  American diarist
• Reginald Barlow1866-1943
  Actor
• John Clarkson1861-1909
  American baseball player
• Tim Keefe1857-1933
  American baseball player

People whose Wikidata entry gives Cambridge 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.

• Mount Auburn Cemetery

  North Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Watertown Catholic Cemetery

  North Brighton, MA
  Catholic cemetery

  0.5 mi
• Arlington Street Burying Ground

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  0.9 mi
• Old Burying Place

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  0.9 mi
• Burial Hill Cemetery

  West Cambridge/Harvard Square, MA
  Cemetery

  1.1 mi
• Old Burying Ground

  West Cambridge/Harvard Square, MA
  Cemetery

  1.1 mi
• Belmont Cemetery

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Market Street Burying Ground

  Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Market St Cemetery

  Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery

  West Somerville/Davis Square, MA
  Catholic cemetery

  1.7 mi

• Mt Auburn Memorials Inc

  Monument dealer · Cambridge · (617) 876-9110
  0.6 mi
• Stanton Funeral Service, Inc.

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-3838
  0.8 mi
• Devito Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-3445
  0.8 mi
• Giragosian Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-0606
  1.1 mi
• Aram Bedrosian Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-7400
  1.1 mi
• Faggas Funeral Services

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 926-2163
  1.1 mi

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