Cove Burying Ground
Cove Burying Ground is located in Cape Cod
Cove Burying Ground
Cove Burying Ground is located in Massachusetts
Cove Burying Ground
Cove Burying Ground is located in the United States
Cove Burying Ground
LocationEastham, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°48′40″N 69°58′17″W / 41.81111°N 69.97139°W / 41.81111; -69.97139
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
ArchitectNathaniel Emmes
NRHP reference No.99000561[1]
Added to NRHPMay 12, 1999

The Cove Burying Ground is an historic cemetery located just south of MA 6 and Corliss Way in Eastham, Massachusetts, US. It is Eastham's oldest cemetery, dating to c. 1646. It was laid out not long after the town's first meeting house was built nearby. Although there are no graves marked with 17th-century markers, it is virtually certain that some of Eastham's early settlers are buried here. It was the town's only burying ground until the establishment in 1720 of the Bridge Road Cemetery. The cemetery remained in active use until about 1770. Families placed memorial markers in there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2]

Three of the Mayflower's 1620 original passengers have marked headstones here.[3] They are:

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Cove Burying Ground". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-10.
  3. ↑ Eastham Historical Society Information Signage
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