Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn, Massachusetts)

Pine Grove Cemetery
The chapel
Location Lynn, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°28′39″N 70°57′44″W / 42.47750°N 70.96222°W / 42.47750; -70.96222Coordinates: 42°28′39″N 70°57′44″W / 42.47750°N 70.96222°W / 42.47750; -70.96222
NRHP Reference #

14000364

[1]
Added to NRHP June 27, 2014

Pine Grove Cemetery is a cemetery whose main entrance is on Boston Road in Lynn, Massachusetts. It was established in the mid-19th century and it consists of 82 developed acres. There are approximately 88,000 to 90,000 interments at the cemetery.

History

It was originally established as a private cemetery in 1849, with a design by Henry A. S. Dearborn, noted designer of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was purchased by the city of Lynn in 1855.[2] In 1930, a wall was built by the WPA to surround the cemetery, and according to Ripley's Believe It or Not! it is the “second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world,” second only to the Great Wall of China. The cemetery got its name from the plethora of pine trees surrounding Rhodes Memorial Chapel and the cemetery's entrance. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

Features and landmarks

Pine Grove Cemetery has many notable features and landmarks:

Notable interments

See also

References

  1. Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Pine Grove Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-08-03.

External links

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