North Burial Ground
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North Burial Ground
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North Burial Ground
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Entry marker to North Burial Ground
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| Location: | Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Built: | 1700 |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: |
77000003 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | September 13, 1977 |
The North Burial Ground is a 110-acre (0.45 km2) cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island, dating to 1700. Providence had no 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.
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Prominent people buried here
- Zachariah Allen, prominent Providence mill owner and civic leader
- William B. Avery, Medal of Honor recipient
- Edward Mitchell Bannister, African American painter
- Chad Brown, early pastor of the First Baptist Church in America, progenitor of Brown family
- John Brown, merchant, U.S. Representative, slave trader, co-founder of Brown University
- Nicholas Cooke, governor of colony and state of Rhode Island during American Revolutionary War
- Fred Corey, Major League Baseball player
- Gregory Dexter, early president of Rhode Island colony
- James Fenner, governor from 1805 to 1807
- Sam Walter Foss, librarian, poet.
- Stephen Hopkins, colonial governor, Founding Father, signatory of the Declaration of Independence
- Joseph Jenckes, colonial governor of Rhode Island, 1727-1732
- Horace Mann, educator, founder of Antioch College, U.S. Representative
- Albert Martin (soldier) (memorial), only Rhode Islander who was a defender of the Alamo
- Annie Smith Peck, pioneering woman mountaineer
- Henry J. Steere, philanthropist, manufacturer
- Sarah Helen Whitman, poet, essayist, and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe
- Charles J. Martin, artist and arts instructor
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
See also
Images
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Early 1900s postcard of North Burial Ground
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Entry flag and marker to North Burial Ground
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Dexter family monument with governor's flags for Gregory Dexter, colonial President
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Grave monument for Governor Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Grave plaque for Governor Stephen Hopkins
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DAR grave plaque for Sarah Hopkins, wife of Governor Stephen Hopkins
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Governor Nicholas Cooke grave monument
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Nicholas Cooke governor's medallion
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Governor James Fenner mausoleum
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James Fenner governor's medallion
External links
find-a-grave site for Gov. Stephen Hopkins
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