Rogers Cemetery in New London, Connecticut

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Get directions New London, Connecticut, 06320 USA

Coordinates: 41.38248, -72.09857
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From Route 12 North, at the north corner of the Coast Guard Academy (before you get to the Conn College entrance) turn right at onto Deshon St., which runs steeply down to the Thames River along the north side of the Academy campus. Turn left on Nameaug Ave. follow it to the end & turn right on Farnsworth St. Follow Farnsworth down to the railroad track at the foot (and the entrance to an old shipyard) & turn left onto a dirt road that parallels the railroad. This leads to a Connecticut College playing field and boathouse, and the Rogers cemetery is in the trees on the far edge of the playing field. You will see boulder, and a little brook marks the far boundary of the cemetery. The photo on Roots & Routes is of this cemetery. The cemetery is smaller now than originally: the railroad took some of it in the l9th century, and a hurricane in 1815 probably washed some of it away.
The first burial was John Rogers Sr., who died of smallpox. Rogers was buried directly upon the bank of the Thames and was marked by two granite stones. Here he had set aside a place of family sepulture, which his son John, in 1751, secured to his descendants by deed for a burial place. Known as Roger's cemetery, is it thought to have sixty or eighty burials. Only two or three inscribed stones mark a burial, since the Rogerenes did not approve of monuments in memory of the dead. The land, including the cemetery, later passed from the Rogers family in 1822.
Roger's cemetery has seen major changes that have impacted the cemetery's size. Known to have been over an acre and a half in size, today there is less than a quarter acre left of the cemetery.