North Burial Ground

This article is about the cemetery in Rhode Island. For the cemetery in Massachusetts, see North Burial Ground (Fall River, Massachusetts).
North Burial Ground
North Burial Ground is located in Rhode Island
North Burial Ground
North Burial Ground is located in the United States
North Burial Ground
LocationProvidence, Rhode Island
Built1700
NRHP reference No.77000003 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 13, 1977
Mowry Tavern (now demolished), a stone-ender on Abbott St. as it looked ca. 1885, with the Cemetery behind it

The North Burial Ground is a 110-acre (0.45 km2) cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island dating to 1700, the first public cemetery in Providence.[2] It is located north of downtown Providence, bounded by North Main Street, Branch Avenue, the Moshassuck River, and Cemetery Street. Its main entrance is at the junction of Branch and North Main. The burial ground is one of the larger municipal cemeteries in Southern New England, and it accepts 220 to 225 burials per year.[3]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Rogak, Lisa (2004). Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries. Globe Pequot. p. 159. ISBN 9780762730001.
  3. ^ Hill, John (24 Jan 2015). "Providence's North Burial Ground is running out of room". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 25 January 2015.