Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank
Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank | |
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Location | Malden, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°25′3.1″N 71°4′14.7″W / 42.417528°N 71.070750°W |
Area | 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) |
Built | 1649 |
Architect | Joseph Lamson; James Foster |
NRHP reference No. | 81000108 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 27, 1981 |
The Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank (officially known as Bell Rock Cemetery) is a historic cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts, US. It occupies a roughly rectangular parcel of land 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) in size, bounded by Medford Street on the north, Green Street on the east, Converse Avenue on the south and the Saugus Branch Railroad (now the Northern Strand Community Trail) on the west. It is the oldest cemetery in the city, established in 1649. Its earliest probable burial dates to that same year, although the oldest gravestone, that of Alice Brackenbury, bears the date 1670. The Malden Public Library, in its local history collection,[2] has a multi-volume set of binders that contain alphabetically ordered photographs of every grave in the cemetery with the epitaphs on each gravestone transcribed below its picture.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[1]
It is the final resting place of Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705), a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem, "The Day of Doom", was very popular in early New England and remained so for over a century.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Bell Rock Cemetery – via Malden Public Library Catalog.
- ^ "Analysis of The Day of Doom". Retrieved 7 September 2022.
External links
[edit] Media related to Bell Rock Cemetery (Malden, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons
- 1649 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Cemeteries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Buildings and structures in Malden, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Cemeteries established in the 17th century