Oak Grove Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

Oak Grove Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Parker St., New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°38′37″N 70°56′31″W / 41.6437°N 70.942°W / 41.6437; -70.942
Area	31 acres (13 ha)
Built	1843 (1843) (relocated burials date to 1798)
NRHP reference No.	14000176[1]
Added to NRHP	April 28, 2014

The Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Parker Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It consists of two parcels, separated by Parker Street, northwest of the city's central business district. The older portion of the cemetery, that south of Parker Street, was established in 1843, while the northern section was acquired and developed between 1870 and 1896. Most of the cemetery is laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style of winding lanes, although the northernmost section has a more open layout, made partly due to complaints about the cluttered nature of the rural cemetery style.^[2]

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.^[1]

Notable burials[edit]

• William P. Brownell (1839–1915) Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient
• Richard Albert Canfield (1855–1914) businessman and gambler
• SGT William Harvey Carney (1840–1908) Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• John Duffey (1836–1923) Civil War Medal of Honor
• Thomas D. Eliot (1808–1870) Civil War US Congressman
• Harry Stovey (1856–1937) Professional Baseball Player

See also[edit]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Media related to Oak Grove Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons

• Oak Grove Cemetery at Find a Grave