Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery

Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery
Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery is located in Rhode Island
Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery
Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery is located in the United States
Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery
LocationNewport, Rhode Island, U.S.
Area31 acres (13 ha)
Built1665
Architectural styleBeaux Arts, Romanesque
Websitewww.islandcemeterynewport.com
NRHP reference No.74000044[1]
Added to NRHPMay 1, 1974

The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial-era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.[1]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.