Hartford Ave., Bellingham, Massachusetts. County/parish: Norfolk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 25, 2012. NRIS 12000819.
2 contributing sites. 4 contributing structures. 14 contributing objects.
The North Bellingham Cemetery and Oak Hill Cemetery are a pair of adjacent cemeteries in Bellingham, Massachusetts. They are located on the north side of Hartford Avenue (Massachusetts Route 126) a short way east of its junction with Interstate 495. The municipally-owned North Bellingham Cemetery is a roughly 1 acre (0.40 ha) plot, and is the oldest cemetery in the town, holding the graves of many of the town's founders. Its earliest recorded burial was in 1712, and the last was in 1888. Oak Hill Cemetery, a still-active cemetery, is a privately owned 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) parcel established in 1849. The two cemeteries combine to show the full range of changing funerary tastes from colonial days to the present.
The cemeteries were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796412