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Beyond the Gates: A Cemetery Explorer’s Guide to the Old Town Cemetery in Mansfield, MA

Possibly the burial ground of Mansfield’s first parish, settled in 1658, many graves in the Old Town Cemetery predate the town’s 1775 incorporation. Continue reading
Beyond the Gates: A Cemetery Explorer’s Guide to the Old Burying Ground of Groton, MA

Just off the main road going through Groton’s historic town center is the Old Burying Ground, where its citizens were buried since 1678, a period from which wooden markers sadly do not survive. Continue reading
Beyond the Gates: A Cemetery Explorer’s Guide to Walton Cemetery in Pepperell, Massachusetts

The earliest graves show fearsome skulls with eye sockets bored deep, and soon ornate winged skulls give way to infant-like craniums flanked with crossbones and odd, swaddled faces. Continue reading
Beyond the Gates: A Cemetery Explorer’s Guide to the Old Burial Grounds Ashby, MA

Peppered with grumpy cherubim tympana, the cemetery also boasts many architecturally impressive urn motifs. Continue reading