Fairview Cemetery is a cemetery on Main Street in Westford, Massachusetts. This cemetery is located on Main Street at the corner of Tadmuck Road. It was originally called East Burying Ground and Snow Cemetery. The oldest tombstone dates to 1702, making it one of the town's oldest cemeteries. The cemetery sits on 10.5 acres, a substantial enlargement that began in the 1860s, when new portions of the cemetery were laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style.[2]
Fairview Cemetery | |
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| Location | Westford, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°35′13″N 71°25′15″W / 42.58694°N 71.42083°W |
| Area | 10.45 acres (4.23 ha) |
| Built | 1876 |
| NRHP reference No. | 04001472 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 12, 2005 |
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]
See also
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Fairview Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
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