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Rhobart Northup Lot

Also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery North Kingstown #51

North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA

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  • Get directions Tower Hill Road (Route 1)
    North Kingstown, Rhode Island 02874 United States
    Coordinates: 41.51808, -71.45897
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Names for this cemetery are:


*LaFarge Cemetery

*Ancient Northup Burial Ground

*Rhode Island Historic Cemetery, North Kingstown #51

*Burgess #76

*Harris #XXVIII


The following description is from the book "Graveyards of North Kingstown, Rhode Island" by Althea McAleer, Beatrix Hoffius, and Deby Nunes, Lot #51.


The cemetery is located "at the end of a private road marked 'River Farm' off the east side of Tower Hill Road. It is slightly north of the Pierce Turkey Farm on the opposite side of Tower Hill Road. Follow road about 1/3 mile, turn right at farmhouse, burial yard on left."


Additional details from the same book are as follows: "Harris on his visit, on March 15, 1880 located it on the farm of the late Frederic Gardiner. He called it the ancient Northup burial yard. He counted 64 other graves marked rudely. 'Here undoubtedly lie some of the earliest settlers of this land'."


When the cemetery was visited in the 1980s, only 41 graves marked by fieldstones could be identified. The writer of this description visited this cemetery on 13 April 1995, and photographed the markers belonging to his two ancestors, Robert and Susanna Northup. When he attempted to visit this cemetery in April 2013, he was unable to find River Farm Road, or any other road that fit this description. He ended up on some property belonging to the University of Rhode Island (where they stored some impressive watercraft), but there was not a human to be found to whom questions could be directed.


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Names for this cemetery are:


*LaFarge Cemetery

*Ancient Northup Burial Ground

*Rhode Island Historic Cemetery, North Kingstown #51

*Burgess #76

*Harris #XXVIII


The following description is from the book "Graveyards of North Kingstown, Rhode Island" by Althea McAleer, Beatrix Hoffius, and Deby Nunes, Lot #51.


The cemetery is located "at the end of a private road marked 'River Farm' off the east side of Tower Hill Road. It is slightly north of the Pierce Turkey Farm on the opposite side of Tower Hill Road. Follow road about 1/3 mile, turn right at farmhouse, burial yard on left."


Additional details from the same book are as follows: "Harris on his visit, on March 15, 1880 located it on the farm of the late Frederic Gardiner. He called it the ancient Northup burial yard. He counted 64 other graves marked rudely. 'Here undoubtedly lie some of the earliest settlers of this land'."


When the cemetery was visited in the 1980s, only 41 graves marked by fieldstones could be identified. The writer of this description visited this cemetery on 13 April 1995, and photographed the markers belonging to his two ancestors, Robert and Susanna Northup. When he attempted to visit this cemetery in April 2013, he was unable to find River Farm Road, or any other road that fit this description. He ended up on some property belonging to the University of Rhode Island (where they stored some impressive watercraft), but there was not a human to be found to whom questions could be directed.


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