Artillery Park

	Artillery Park
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Jamestown, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°29′47″N 71°22′29″W / 41.49639°N 71.37472°WCoordinates: 41°29′47″N 71°22′29″W / 41.49639°N 71.37472°W
Built	1656
NRHP reference No.	73000054
Added to NRHP	March 7, 1973

The Artillery Park (also known as the Churchyard Cemetery) is an historic cemetery at North Road and Narragansett Avenue in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is located at a high point on the southern part of Conanicut Island. It was originally laid out in 1656 as a burying ground and militia training ground, but appears to have been used as a burying ground only since the 1740s. When British forces occupied the island in 1776, there was a brief skirmish there, and the British afterward used the area as a military staging ground.^[2] The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

Old section of the cemetery
Memorial to veterans of Jamestown, RI
American Legion insignia on gate of cemetery

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Town of Jamestown: Artillery info

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Artillery Park" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-30.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Artillery Park" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-30.

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