Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery | |
Location | Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. |
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Area | 31 acres (13 ha) |
Built | 1665 |
Architectural style | Beaux Arts, Romanesque |
Website | www |
NRHP reference No. | 74000044[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 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]