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Bennington Street Burying Ground
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
View of the cemetery in 2009.
Location	East Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′52″N 71°01′16″W / 42.38111°N 71.02111°W / 42.38111; -71.02111
Area	3.6 acres (1.5 ha)
Built	1838
NRHP reference No.	02000548
Added to NRHP	May 22, 2002

The Bennington Street Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Bennington Street, between Swift St. and Harmony St., in East Boston, Massachusetts.

The cemetery was established in 1838, in a late version of the traditional rectilinear colonial cemetery, rather than the rural cemetery style that was then just beginning to come into vogue. The cemetery has more than 300 graves, the oldest dating to 1819 (probably a reburial from another location). The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

The professional baseball player Red Woodhead was interred at the cemetery in 1881.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Lambert, David Allen (2002). A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries. New England Historic Genealogical Society. p. 27. ISBN 0880821345.
3. "NRHP nomination for Bennington Street Burying Ground". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
4. "Red Woodhead Statistics and History". Baseball Reference. Retrieved March 19, 2013.

External links

Media related to Bennington Street Burying Ground at Wikimedia Commons

• Profile at City of Boston
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bennington Street Cemetery
• Bennington Street Burying Ground at Find a Grave
• Media related to Bennington Street Burying Ground at Wikimedia Commons

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