Old Burying Ground in West Cambridge/Harvard Square, Massachusetts

Old Burying Ground is a cemetery near West Cambridge/Harvard Square, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The grounds sit at about 26 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 19 notable people buried here, including Washington Allston, Francis Dana and Thaddeus William Harris. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1971612. The nearest funeral home we know of is A J Spears Funeral Home in Cambridge, about 0.9 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 165 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, West Cambridge/Harvard Square. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 3 writers, 1 architect, 1 artist, 1 boxer, 1 journalist, 1 physician, 1 scientist.

• Washington Allston1779-1843
  American artist
• Francis Dana1743-1811
  Chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Thaddeus William Harris1795-1856
  United States librarian and entomologist
• Richard Henry Dana, Sr.1787-1879
  American writer and lawyer
• Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett1820-1871
  American athletics instructor
• Benjamin Wadsworth1670-1737
  American clergyman and educator (1670-1737); president of Harvard University
• Edmund Trowbridge Dana1818-1869
  American jurist and author
• Edward Holyoke1689-1769
  American academic administrator (1689-1769); 9th president of Harvard
• John Leverett the Younger1662-1724
  Massachusetts colonial judge; president of Harvard
• Edward Doubleday Harris1839-1919
  US architect, genealogist, and entomologist
• Elijah Corlet1610-1687
  American educator
• Jonathan Remington1677-1745

People whose Wikidata entry gives Old Burying Ground 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.

• Burial Hill Cemetery

  West Cambridge/Harvard Square, MA
  Cemetery

  0.1 mi
• Somerville Cemetery

  Cambridge, MA
  Cemetery

  1.0 mi
• Milk Row Cemetery

  439 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA
  Municipal cemetery

  1.0 mi
• Cambridge Cemetery

  North Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  1.1 mi
• Mount Auburn Cemetery

  North Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  1.3 mi
• North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery

  West Somerville/Davis Square, MA
  Catholic cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Watertown Catholic Cemetery

  North Brighton, MA
  Catholic cemetery

  1.5 mi
• Arlington Street Burying Ground

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  1.9 mi
• Old Burying Place

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  1.9 mi
• Belmont Cemetery

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  2.0 mi

• A J Spears Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Cambridge · (617) 876-4047
  0.9 mi
• John C. Burns & Sons Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Cambridge · (617) 876-8336
  1.1 mi
• Keefe Funeral Homes

  Funeral home · Cambridge · (617) 547-5544
  1.2 mi
• Mt Auburn Memorials Inc

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

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

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-3445
  1.7 mi

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