About Swan Point Cemetery
Swan Point Cemetery is a cemetery near Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island. It lies about 1.8 mi north of Pawtucket. The grounds sit at about 98 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 270 notable people buried here, including H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Burnside and Robert Henri. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1904325. The nearest other listed cemetery is Riverside Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the north. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Sugarman Sinai Memorial Chapel in Providence, about 1.3 mi away. It is one of 631 cemeteries we list in Providence County, and 350 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 12 of the 631 listings in Providence County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Pawtucket. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Swan Point Cemetery
Among them: 24 governors, 20 writers, 16 US representatives, 15 business leaders, 13 US senators, 12 artists, 9 scientists, 8 architects.
- H. P. Lovecraft1890-1937American writer and editor
- Ambrose Burnside1824-1881American general and politician
- Robert Henri1865-1929American painter
- Nelson W. Aldrich1841-1915American politician
- John Chafee1922-1999United States Senator
- Malcolm Chace1875-1955US tennis player
- Paulina Wright Davis1813-1876American activist
- Jacob Tamarkin1888-1945Russian-American mathematician
- Samuel G. Arnold1821-1880Union United States Army officer
- George Henry Corliss1817-1888American engineer
- Henry B. Anthony1815-1884United States journalist and politician
- Stella Roman1904-1992Romanian singer
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- Theodore F. Green1867-1966American politician
- Theodore Foster1752-1828American politician
- William Sprague IV1830-1915Governor and senator for Rhode Island, United States of America
- Henry F. Lippitt1856-1933American politician
- Henry Wheaton1785-1848United States lawyer, journalist, jurist and diplomat from New York
- John Russell Bartlett1805-1886American historian and linguist
- Norman S. Case1888-1967Lawyer and politician
- William Albert Setchell1864-1943American botanist and naturalist
- Charles Tillinghast James1805-1862American politician
- Jesse H. Metcalf1860-1942American politician
- Richard Steere Aldrich1884-1941American politician
- Adin B. Capron1841-1911American politician
- Albert C. Greene1791-1863American politician
- Charles H. Page1843-1912American politician
- George Pierce Baker1866-1935American educator and dramatic arts academic
- Leonard Bacon1887-1954American poet, translator, and literary critic
- Sullivan Ballou1829-1861Union Army officer
- Albert Harkness1822-1907American classical philologist
- Charles D. Kimball1859-1930American politician
- Charles V. Chapin1856-1941American physician
- Charles W. Lippitt1846-1924American politician
- Daniel L. D. Granger1852-1909American politician
- Daniel Russell Brown1848-191943rd Governor of Rhode Island
- Dudley Richards1932-1961Figure skater
- Henry Lippitt1818-1891American politician
- Herbert W. Ladd1843-1913American politician
- Lemuel Hastings Arnold1792-1852American politician
- Nora Perry1831-1896American writer
- Rachel Blodgett Adams1894-1982American mathematician
- Richard Arnold1828-1882Politician and Union Army general
- Royal C. Taft1823-1912American politician
- Thomas Jenckes1818-1875American politician
- Thomas Wilson Dorr1805-1854American politician
- Walter Russell Stiness1854-1924American politician
- William Almy Pirce1824-1891American politician
- William Sprague III1799-1856American Governor of Rhode Island
- William W. Hoppin1807-1880American politician
- Alfred H. Littlefield1829-1893American politician
- Augustus O. Bourn1834-1925American politician
- Benjamin T. Eames1818-1901American politician
- Elisha Dyer1811-1890American politician (1811-1890), 25th Governor of Rhode Island
- Elisha Dyer1839-1906American politician (1839-1906), 45th Governor of Rhode Island
- George H. Browne1818-1885American politician
- Henry J. Spooner1839-1918American politician
- James Y. Smith1809-1876American politician
- Lucius F. C. Garvin1841-192248th Governor of Rhode Island
- Oscar Lapham1837-1926American politician
- Seth Padelford1807-1878American politician
- Albert Gallup1796-1851American politician
- Annie Robe1866-1922British-American stage actress of the Victorian era
- Barbara Meek1934-2015American actress
- David Leonard Barnes1760-1812United States federal judge
- David Wallis Reeves1838-1900American bandleader and composer
- Elisha Hunt Rhodes1842-1917Union Army general
- Elizabeth Buffum Chace1806-1899American activist
- Ethel Owen1893-1997Actress
- Mabel May Woodward1877-1945American painter
- R. H. Ives Gammell1893-1981American artist
- Walter P. Phillips1846-1920Journalist, telegrapher, inventor
- William Augustus Mowry1829-1917American historian
- William Jones1753-1822Governor of Rhode Island
- Winthrop W. Aldrich1885-1974American banker, financier, ambassador
- Alfred E. Stone1834-1908American architect
- C. M. Eddy, Jr.1896-1967American writer known for his horror, mystery and supernatural short stories
- Charles R. Brayton1840-1910Union Army officer
- Emeline S. Burlingame1836-1923American editor, evangelist, suffragist
- George Albert Gale1893-1951American painter
- Hank Soar1914-2001Player of American football
- Henry Brayton Gardner1863-1939American economist
- Henry Martyn Congdon1834-1922American architect and designer
- Jabez Bowen1739-1815American politician, lawyer judge, slave trader
- James Sullivan Lincoln1811-1888American painter
- John Gould Anthony1804-1877American naturalist
- Morris H. Morgan1859-1910American classical scholar
- Pard Pearce1896-1974American football player
- Sarah Elizabeth Doyle1830-1922American educator and educational reformer
- Thomas Addison Richards1820-1900American landscape artist
- Thomas Davis1806-1895Irish-American manufacturer, politician and abolitionist
- Whipple Van Buren Phillips1833-1904American businessman
- Adeline Harris Sears1839-1931American quiltmaker
- Alice Morris Sturges1911-1986American interlinguist
- Arnold Buffum Chace1845-1932American academic
- Arthur Dennis1846-1920American politician
- Benjamin Knight1813-1898American industrialist, philanthropist
- Chester Holmes Aldrich1871-1940American architect
- Daniel Lyman1756-1830American judge
- Darius Goff1809-1891Textile manufacturer
- Edward Angell1847-1923American architect
- George Alder Blumer1857-1940American physician
- George Harris1844-1922American theologian
- Gilbert F. Robbins1838-1889Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- Harriet Pritchard Arnold1858-1901American author
- Harry Kizirian1925-2002Soldier in the United States Marine Corps
- Henry A. Stearns1825-1910American mill owner and politician
- Henry Rodman Barker1841-1901American politician
- Jane Anthony Davis1821-1855American artist
- Jane Anthony Eames1816-1894American travel writer
- John Howard Appleton1844-1930American chemist
- Joseph Pope Balch1822-1872Union Army general
- Lillie Chace Wyman1847-1929American author
- Lucy Aldrich1869-1955Philanthropist and art collector
- Lucy Hayes Herron1877-1961American socialite and golfer
- Madeleine Ives Goddard1874-1931American socialite and nurse, who became the Marquise d'Andigne
- Mary Ann Lippitt1918-2006American pilot, aviation business founder and philanthropist
- US author and reformer
- Oliver Shaw1779-1848American composer
- Ray Cox1881-1957American actress and vaudeville performer
- Robert H. Homer1849-1927American politician
- Thomas A. Doyle1827-1886Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- Thomas Alexander Tefft1826-1859American architect
- Walter R. Danforth1787-1861
- William Eaton Foster1851-1930American librarian
- William R. Walker1830-1905American architect
- William S. Hayward1835-1900Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- Alexander Hamilton Vinton1852-1911American Anglican bishop
- Alpheus C. Morse1818-1893American architect
- Alva Woods1794-1887American minister
- Amasa M. Eaton1841-1914American lawyer and politician
- Andy Branigan1922-1995Canadian ice hockey player
- Barnaby Keeney1914-1980American academic administrator
- Edward P. Knowles1805-1881Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- Edward T. Nichols1823-1886U.S. Navy rear admiral
- Elisha Dyer1862-1917American socialite
- Francis Laurens Vinton1835-18791 Jun 1835 - certain 6 Oct 1879
- Frank Fuller Olney1851-1903American politician and philatelist
- Frederick R. Goff1916-1982Librarian
- George L. Clarke1813-1890Rhode Island politician, US
- George R. Dyer1869-1934American businessman
- Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf1830-1895American founder and director of the Rhode Island School of Design
- Henry Fletcher1859-1953Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, US
- Horatio Rogers1836-1904American judge
- Izannah Walker1817-1888American dollmaker and inventor
- Jabez Comstock Knight1815-1900Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- James Irving Manatt1845-1915American university professor of Greek
- John Osborne Austin1849-1918Genealogical author and publisher
- Louise Arnold1923-2010American baseball player
- Marcus Waterman1834-1914American painter
- Nathaniel W. Smith1873-1957American politician
- Olney Arnold II1861-1916American diplomat
- Robert Hale Ives Goddard1837-1916American industrialist, military officer and politician
- Vinton Chapin1900-1982American diplomat
- Walter Samuel Hunter1889-1954American psychologist
- William Faunce1859-1930American clergyman
- William Hamlin1772-1869American engraver
- William Hyde Appleton1837-1926American academic
- Albert Gallatin Scholfield1807-1901
- Amasa Sprague1798-1843American businessman and politician
- Amos D. Lockwood1811-1884American engineer and businessman
- Anna Beth Sully1886-1967Ex-wife of Douglas Fairbanks; mother of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Annie Gamwell1866-1941H.P.Lovecraft's aunt
- Arthur L. Hardge1927-1983African American civil rights activist, academic administrator, and minister
- Benedict Lapham1816-1883American philanthropist and industrialist
- Benjamin H. Child1843-1902Medal of Honor recipient
- Darius L. Goff1919-1998American politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
- David M. Thompson1839-1906American engineer and architect
- Edward B. Hall1800-1866American Unitarian minister
- Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke1854-1931American university president
- Frederick C. Sayles1835-1903First mayor of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, US
- George L. Porter1838-1919American physician
- Harry Lyman Koopman1860-1937Koopman, Harry Lyman
- Helen Metcalf Danforth1887-1984American college president
- Henry Hart1913-1986American actor
- Henry Parker Manning1859-1956
- John Russell Bartlett1843-1904Admiral and oceanographer
- Joshua M. Addeman1840-193019th century Rhode Island politician
- Julia Ann Clark Shedd1834-1897Born 1834; died 1897
- Lester D. Boronda1886-1951American painter, furniture designer
- Margarethe Lyman Dwight1871-1962American suffragist
- Moses Bixby1827-1901American missionary
- Oscar Miller1867-1921American painter, 1867-1921
- Perry Davis1791-1862American manufacturer and Baptist minister
- Samuel Ames1806-1865American judge
- Samuel Mowry Nicholson1861-1939American industrialist
- Thomas Durfee1826-1901American jurist
- A. J. F. Behrends1839-1900Dutch-American clergyman
- Abby Antonia Updike1815-1891
- Abby Frances Lippitt1861-1946Heiress
- Abby Francis Woods1850-1895
- Adelaide McAlpin1922-2015
- Alice Dudley Coatsdied 1889(died 1889)
- Ann P. D. Manton1899-1997American physician
- Anne Sibley Angell1855-1925American botanist and botanical collector
- Anne Whitney Rhodes1810-1898
- Annie Brown Francis1828-1896
- Asa Clinton Crowell1862-1936American scholar
- Augustine Jones1835-1925Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Benjamin Dyer Manton1829-1911American diplomat
- Benjamin Fessenden1797-1881American politician
- Caesar Augustus Updike1824-1877American lawyer and legislator
- Caroline Minerva Sayles1866-1910
- Charles H. Parkhurst1831-1889American military officer
- Charles Henry Dabney1807-1879
- Christopher Albert Greene1816-185327 Jun 1816 - 28 Nov 1853
- Clarence S. Brigham1877-1963American librarian
- Clark Sayles1797-1885
- Cynthia Burr1770-1848Born 1770.05.21; embroiderer; textile artist
- Dana Swanborn 1908American lawyer
- Daniel P. Griswold1866-1911American rare book collector
- Darius Lee Goff, Jr1890-1938Textile manufacturer
- Duncan Thomas Hunter1863-1902Banker
- Edmund Davis1824-1880American manufacturer
- Elisha Williams Appleton1810-1900(6 Oct 1810 - )
- Elizabeth Hope Gammell Slater1854-1944American heiress
- Emma Frances Thompsondied 1941Peerage person ID=319108
- George S. Burleigh1821-1903Transcendentalist poet; born 1821; died 1903
- George Taylor Paine1838-1903Born 1838; died 1903
- Hannah Jones Dabney1775-1836
- Harriet Brown Bailey1852-1905American botanist and collector
- Henry Atkins Hidden1816-1899Millionaire
- Henry Bowen1785-1867
- Henry Dexter Sharpe1872-19541872-1954
- Henry T. Drowne1822-1897American businessman and historian
- Howard Okie Sturges1845-1920
- J. Lewis Diman1831-1881American historian
- Janet Malise Hunter1897-1977Heiress
- Jesse Metcalf1827-1899American textile manufacturer
- Joel Herbert Shedd1834-19151834-1915
- John Ormsbee Ames1872-1936
- John Sharpe Chafee1896-1984
- John T. Blodgett1859-1912American judge
- Kate Holmes Heiser1873-1950
- Leallyn B. Clapp1913-1988American chemistry professor
- Lucian Sharpe1830-1899Co-founder of Brown & Sharpe
- Lydia Allen Dorr1782-1859
- Madeleine Livermore Abbott1876-1963
- Marsden J. Perry1850-1935
- Martha Freeman Sayles1896-1947
- Martha Jewett Nicholson1895-1973
- Mary Ann Olney1803-1878
- Mary Dorr Ames1871-1946
- Mary Louise Baker1831-1895
- Milton J. Budlong1869-1941
- Paul C. Nicholson1888-1956American file manufacturer
- Paul Coe Nicholson1918-2018
- Rebecca Burnette Groesbeck1840-1914
- Robert Bartlett Dresser1880-1976American lawyer and conservative political figure
- Robert H. Nisbet1879-1961American painter
- Rosa Anne Mason1817-18721817-1872
- Ruth Mowry Brown1867-1950American writer
- Sarah Ann Auchincloss1838-1887(died 1887)
- Sarah Brown Bowen1742-1800
- Sarah Cole Goff1845-1913
- Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft1857-1921
- Sophia Metcalf1859-1934
- Stephen Olney Metcalf1857-1950American industrialist and financier
- Sullivan Dorr1778-1858Merchant, Providence, R.I.
- Sullivan Dorr Ames1840-1880
- Thomas Frederick Brown1842-1928American military personnel
- Tracy Hoppin1871-1958American painter
- Walter Hidden1851-1929Heir
- William Bowen1747-1832Doctor in Providence, RI
- William Francis Sayles1824-1894American businessman
- William Gammell III1857-1943Heir
- William Grovsenor1810-1888Doctor, Merchant, Millionaire
- William Horatio Bowen1824-1897
- William Livesey Burdick1860-1946American lawyer and educator
- William Thomas Nicholson1834-1893American inventor and manufacturer
- Winfield Scott Lovecraft1853-1898American blacksmith and traveling salesman; father of H. P. Lovecraft
People whose Wikidata entry gives Swan Point 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.
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What Swan Point 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
- Riverside CemeteryPawtucket, RICemetery0.5 mi
- Mount Saint Mary CemeteryPawtucket, RICemetery0.9 mi
- North Burial GroundProvidence, RICemetery1.3 mi
- Old Saint Mary's CemeteryPawtucket, RIChristian cemetery1.3 mi
- Saint Francis CemeteryPawtucket, RICemetery1.5 mi
- Mineral Spring CemeteryPawtucket, RICemetery1.7 mi
- Carpenter CemeteryEast Providence, RICemetery1.7 mi
- Springvale CemeteryEast Providence, RICemetery1.7 mi
- Lakeside CemeteryEast Providence, RICemetery1.8 mi
- Newman CemeteryEast Providence, RICemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Swan Point Cemetery
- Sugarman Sinai Memorial Chapel1.3 miFuneral chapel · Providence · (401) 331-8094
- Manning-Heffern Funeral Home and Cremation Services1.7 miFuneral home · Pawtucket · (401) 723-1312
- A.A. Mariani & Son Funeral Home2.1 miFuneral home · Providence · (401) 861-5432
- Karol A Romenski & Sons Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Central Falls · (401) 722-7250
- Manning-Heffern-O'Neill Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Pawtucket · (401) 723-4035
- Charles Coelho Funeral Home and Cremation Services2.2 miFuneral home · Central Falls · (401) 724-9440
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