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Oak Hill Cemetery
Also known as: Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Woonsocket #7 | | 204 Rathburn Street
Woonsocket
Providence County
Rhode Island USA
Postal Code: 02895
Phone: (401)769-1605
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Cemetery notes and/or description:
Oak Hill was incorporated by the Rhode Island General Assembly on 26 February 1856. Prominent Woonsocket industrialist and abolitionist Edward Harris (1801 – 1872) sold the hill top property overlooking what was to become his most ambitious project – the Privilege Mill complex located near North Main and Privilege Streets in Woonsocket. For this land, which consists of approximately 17 acres, the Oak Hill Cemetery Corporation paid him the princely sum of $1.00.
Nils B. Schubarth 1818 – 1889) of Providence laid out the cemetery in 1856 in a meandering, tree filled, almost park like setting that still maintains the feeling of being in a peaceful park. Mr. Schubarth is also responsible for the layout of several other Rhode Island cemeteries.
Evidence indicates that the former Jenkes family cemetery was located at the site of the main gate and would explain the existence of graves that predate the establishment of Oak Hill. These have, at one time, been moved to a site further in the cemetery. There are 122 identified veterans graves dating back to the Civil war and many prominent men and women from the early formation of Woonsocket are buried here.
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GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 42.01163, Longitude: -71.50353
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