Cove Burying Ground
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| Location | Eastham, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 41°48′40″N 69°58′17″W / 41.81111°N 69.97139°WCoordinates: 41°48′40″N 69°58′17″W / 41.81111°N 69.97139°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Architect | Nathaniel Emmes |
| NRHP reference No. | 99000561[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 12, 1999 |
The Cove Burying Ground is an historic cemetery located just south of MA 6 and Corliss Way in Eastham, Massachusetts, USA. It is Eastham's oldest cemetery, dating to c. 1646. It was laid out not long after the town's first meeting house was built nearby. Although there are no graves marked with 17th-century markers, it is virtually certain that some of Eastham's early settlers are buried here. It was the town's only burying ground until the establishment in 1720 of the Bridge Road Cemetery. The cemetery remained in active use until about 1770. Families placed memorial markers in there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2]
The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Cove Burying Ground". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-10.
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Categories:
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Cemeteries in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Eastham, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- 1646 establishments in Massachusetts
- Barnstable County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs