Farwell and Warner Sts., Newport, Rhode Island. County/parish: Newport.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 01, 1974. NRIS 74000044.
3 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 3 contributing structures. 5 contributing objects.
The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial-era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375104