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North Burial Ground
North Burial Ground
North Burial Ground U.S. National Register of Historic Places
public burial ground and no Common until the year 1700 (64 years after its founding) because Rhode Island’s religious and government institutions were so rigorously kept distinct, dating back to its founding by Roger Williams in 1636. Before creating this cemetery, townspeople buried their dead in family plots on individual farms.
Prominent people buried at cemetery
Early 1900s postcard of North Burial Ground Location: Built/Founded: Governing body: Added to NRHP: NRHP Reference#: Providence, Rhode Island 1700 Private September 13, 1977 77000003
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• Edward Mitchell Bannister, African American painter • John Brown, merchant, U.S. Representative, slave trader, co-founder of Brown University • Fred Corey, Major League Baseball player • Sam Walter Foss, librarian, poet. • Stephen Hopkins, politician, Rhode Island governor, Founding Father, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (grave picture) • Horace Mann, educator, founder of Antioch College, U.S. Representative • Henry J. Steere, philanthropist, manufacturer • Sarah Helen Whitman, poet, essayist, and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe
References
• Rhode Island Cemeteries Database [1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
Mowry Tavern (demolished), a stone-ender on Abbott St., built in 1650, with the Cemetery behind it The North Burial Ground is a 110-acre (0.45 km2) cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island, dating to 1700. Providence had no
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