Old North Cemetery | |
Location | Maplewood Ave., Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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Coordinates | 43°4′41″N 70°45′48″W / 43.07806°N 70.76333°W |
Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
Built | 1751 |
NRHP reference No. | 78000218[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 08, 1978 |
Old North Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Maplewood Avenue in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is a roughly 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) parcel of land north of the city center on the shore of North Mill Pond. Its earliest burials are dated to 1751, although it was not formally established as a cemetery until 1753. It is the largest of the city's 18th century cemeteries, and is remarkable for the relatively distant locations some of the stonecarvers came from whose work appears in it.[2] The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]