About First Burial Ground
First Burial Ground is a cemetery near Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Wikidata records 6 notable people buried here, including Loammi Baldwin, Sr., Edward Johnson and Loammi Baldwin, Jr.. The nearest other listed cemetery is Second Burial Ground, about 0.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is McLaughlin Dello Russo Funeral Home in Woburn, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 164 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, Woburn. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at First Burial Ground
Among them: 3 inventors and engineers.
- Loammi Baldwin, Sr.1745-1807American engineer, politician and soldier
- Edward Johnson1598-1672American colonist, historian
- Loammi Baldwin, Jr.1780-1838American civil engineer 1780-1838
- Benjamin Franklin Baldwin1777-1821American civil engineer
- Benjamin Wyman1674-1735
- Nathaniel Saltonstall1674-1739
People whose Wikidata entry gives First Burial 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.
Map
42.48121, -71.15214
What First Burial Ground 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
- Second Burial GroundWoburn, MACemetery0.2 mi
- Woodbrook CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery0.5 mi
- Congregation Anshi Poland CemeteryWoburn, MAChurch cemetery1.4 mi
- Beth Joseph I CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
- Meretz CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
- Beth David CemeteryWoburn, MAJewish cemetery1.4 mi
- Beth Joseph II CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
- South Boston Lodge CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
- Roxbury Mutual Society Burial GroundWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
- Montefiore CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
Funeral homes near First Burial Ground
- McLaughlin Dello Russo Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Woburn · (781) 933-0083
- Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Woburn · (781) 933-0400
- Arthur P. Graham Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Woburn
- Graham Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Woburn · (781) 933-1324
- Marashio Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Woburn
- University Monument Works1.3 miMonument dealer · Woburn · (617) 547-2040
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