The Neck of Land Cemetery is a small historic cemetery on Summer Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Established in 1687 near the confluence of the Mill and Taunton Rivers, it was the city's first cemetery. Most of its graves predate 1800; there are four burials before 1700, including two children. The cemetery is a roughly rectangular plot, about 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) in size, on the south side of Summer Street, between Prospect and West Summer Streets.[2] The most significant individual buried in the cemetery is Taunton founder and first female colonial land claimer Elizabeth Poole.
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| Location | Taunton, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 41°53′52″N 71°5′9″W / 41.89778°N 71.08583°W |
| Built | 1687 |
| MPS | Taunton MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001530 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 10, 1985 |
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Neck of Land Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
External links
edit Media related to Neck O'Land Cemetery (Taunton, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons