Shawsheen Cemetery

Shawsheen Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Great Road and Shawsheen Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The cemetery is Bedford's second, opened in 1849 as its Old Burying Ground was filling up. The original ten acres, and a number of smaller additions between 1894 and 1959, were laid out in the rural cemetery style made fashionable in the 19th century. The total size of the cemetery is 44 acres (18 ha), but not all of this has been developed.

The older sections of the cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Notable burials

• Dorothy Carolin Bacon (1902–1998) — American economist and college professor
• Ruth Elizabeth Bacon (1908–1985) — American foreign service officer
• Alexandra Carlisle (1886–1936) — American actress
• Charles Wilson Killam (1871–1961) — American architect, engineer, and professor at Harvard University
• Herman H. B. Meyer (1864–1937) — American librarian for the Library of Congress

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

References

External links

• Shawsheen Cemetery at Find a Grave

1. Herman H. B. Meyer
2. Charles Wilson Killam
3. Ruth E. Bacon
4. List of rural cemeteries in the United States
5. Andover, Massachusetts
6. Kappa Delta Phi
7. Alexandra Carlisle
8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
9. Dorothy Carolin Bacon
10. West Parish Center District
11. Tewksbury, Massachusetts
12. South Church, Andover, Massachusetts
13. Smith & Dove Co.
14. Edmund Colhoun
15. John Smith (abolitionist)
16. Samuel Phillips Jr.
17. Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
18. Helen M. Winslow
19. Ouray (Ute leader)
20. H. L. Hunley (submarine)