West Street Cemetery
Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
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– 1858), and was deeded to the town in 1808. It now contains eighteen marked burials dating from 1801 to 1879, including Revolutionary War veteran William Farr of Littleton (1755–1834). A 1798 Marshall family tablestone and an 1824 monument to Leonard Downe, Harvard College class of 1822, both originally at West Street, were removed to the nearby Laurel Hill Cemetery before 1907.
The West Street Cemetery occupies a tiny plot of ground at the far western end of Fitchburg's present day Main Street, where Main Street becomes West Street across from a small playing field known as Caldwell Park. Set down below the level of an adjacent road way that is kept at
bay behind a granite retaining wall, the cemetery is nearly invisible to passing motorists. It occupies only one tenth of an acre. When the traffic is quiet, visitors may hear the sound of a rushing brook that runs just east of the cemetery down a steep hill to the Nashua River, a few hundred feet to the south.
Source: Roberta J. O'Hara (Inscriptions from the West Street Cemetery in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1798-1879)
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as FIT803.
– 1858), and was deeded to the town in 1808. It now contains eighteen marked burials dating from 1801 to 1879, including Revolutionary War veteran William Farr of Littleton (1755–1834). A 1798 Marshall family tablestone and an 1824 monument to Leonard Downe, Harvard College class of 1822, both originally at West Street, were removed to the nearby Laurel Hill Cemetery before 1907.
The West Street Cemetery occupies a tiny plot of ground at the far western end of Fitchburg's present day Main Street, where Main Street becomes West Street across from a small playing field known as Caldwell Park. Set down below the level of an adjacent road way that is kept at
bay behind a granite retaining wall, the cemetery is nearly invisible to passing motorists. It occupies only one tenth of an acre. When the traffic is quiet, visitors may hear the sound of a rushing brook that runs just east of the cemetery down a steep hill to the Nashua River, a few hundred feet to the south.
Source: Roberta J. O'Hara (Inscriptions from the West Street Cemetery in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1798-1879)
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as FIT803.
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- Added: 4 Jun 2015
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