About Bridge Street Cemetery
Bridge Street Cemetery is a cemetery near Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It lies about 0.7 mi west of Northampton. The grounds sit at about 138 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 64 notable people buried here, including Caleb Strong, Josiah Whitney and George Washington Cable. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 601300. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Mary Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Czelusniak Funeral Home in Northampton, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 89 cemeteries we list in Hampshire County, and 61 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Hampshire County dates to 1743.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Northampton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Bridge Street Cemetery
Among them: 5 writers, 4 US representatives, 4 US senators, 3 scientists, 2 architects, 2 business leaders, 2 journalists, 1 artist.
- Caleb Strong1745-1819Massachusetts lawyer, governor, and US senator 1745-1819
- Josiah Whitney1819-1896American geologist
- George Washington Cable1844-1925American novelist
- Angel De Cora1871-1919Ho-chunk painter and illustrator who taught art at the early 20th century
- Benjamin Smith Lyman1835-1920US mining engineer
- Elijah H. Mills1776-1829American politician
- Isaac C. Bates1779-1845American politician
- Eli P. Ashmun1770-1819American politician
- Inez Whipple Wilder1871-1929American zoologist
- Charles Delano1820-1883American politician
- Solomon Stoddard1643-1729American Colonial pastor 1643-1729
- Harris Hawthorne Wilder1864-1928American zoologist
Show all 64 notable burials
- Osmyn Baker1800-1875American politician
- Richard L. Allen1803-1869American journalist
- John C. Hammond1842-1926American judge
- Joseph Hawley1723-1788American politician
- Pliny Earle1809-1892American psychiatrist
- Henry M. Burt1831-1899American editor, compiler and publisher
- Joseph Parsons, Jr.1647-1729American businessman
- Laurenus Clark Seelye1837-1924President of Smith College
- Arethusa Hall1802-1891American teacher
- Eleazer Mather1637-1669
- Francis Hovey Stoddard1847-1936American university educator and administrator
- Isaac Damon1781-1862American architect
- John Mitchell1794-1870American minister and author
- Solomon Stoddard1771-1860Massachusetts politician 1771-1860
- Aaron Cookedied 1690Peerage person ID=222982
- Arthur M. Abell1868-1958American music critic
- Charles Nathaniel Clark1853-1919Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Charles P. Huntington1802-1868American lawyer and judge
- Charles Stoddard1802-1873
- Charlotte Frelinghuysen Allen1819-1899
- David Tappan Stoddard1818-1857American missionary in Persia
- Eleanor Goddard Whitney1856-1882
- Frank Lyman1852-1938
- Isaac Chapman Bates1817-1875Boston merchant
- Jerusha Clark Parish1802-1859Born 1802
- Joanna Cunningham Snowden Nichols1788-1865
- John Hooker1729-1777American Congregational minister
- Jonathan Huntington Lyman1783-1825American lawyer
- Josiah Dwight1767-1821American merchant (1767-1821); Massachusetts State Treasurer from 1808 to 1810
- Lewis J. Dudley1815-1896Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Louisa May Goddard1819-1882
- Lucretia Sheldon Clark1759-1847Died 1847
- Noah Parsons1731-1814
- S. Stoddard1800-1847American educator
- Samuel Clarke1758-18372 Jul 1758 - 18 Aug 1837
- Samuel Mather1706-1779
- Sarah Haigh1788-1843Wife of Timothy Edwards
- Sarah Homes Tappan1748-1826
- Sarah King Clark Root1728-1798
- Sarah Tappan Stoddard1771-1852
- Seth Clark1723-1813
- Silence Bryant1774-18621774 - 9 Oct 1862
- Solomon Stoddard1736-1827
- Sophia Lyman1787-1839
- Thomas Jefferson Trist1828-1890Deaf teacher, descendant of Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Munroe Shepherd1856-1923American businessman and civic leader
- Timothy Dwight1694-17711694-1771
- Timothy Dwight1726-1777
- Timothy Edwards Jr.1774-1851
- Timothy Gridley Spaulding1851-1917Politician in Massachusetts, US (b. 1851)
- William Dodge Gray1878-1958American historian of antiquity
- William Fenno Pratt1814-1900
People whose Wikidata entry gives Bridge 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.
Map
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What Bridge Street 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 Mary CemeteryNorthampton, MACemetery1.6 mi
- Old Hadley CemeteryHadley, MACemetery1.8 mi
- B'Nai Israel CemeteryNorthampton, MAJewish cemetery2.0 mi
- Hebrew CemeteryNorthampton, MAJewish cemetery2.0 mi
- Holy Trinity CemeteryNorthampton, MACemetery2.2 mi
- Park Street CemeteryNorthampton, MACemetery2.5 mi
- Saint Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox CemeteryNorthampton, MAOrthodox cemetery2.6 mi
- Spring Grove CemeteryNorthampton, MACemetery2.8 mi
- Hockanum CemeterySouth Hadley, MACemetery2.9 mi
- Hill CemeteryHatfield, MACemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Bridge Street Cemetery
- Czelusniak Funeral Home0.2 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-3585
- Drozdal Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-5306
- Ahearn Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 587-0044
- Pease And Gay Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-0412
- Boucher Obrien Funeral Home4.3 miFuneral home · Easthampton · (413) 527-0015
- Graham Funeral Home4.5 miFuneral home · Easthampton · (413) 527-5321
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