Walnut Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Grove and Railroads Streets in Methuen, Massachusetts. The still active cemetery sits on 14 acres (5.7 ha) and is privately funded with a board of directors. The cemetery was established in 1853, and was laid out in the then-popular rural cemetery style. The Tenney Memorial Chapel given by the Daniel G. Tenney in 1927 as a memorial to his parents Charles H. Tenney and Fannie Haseltine (Gleason) Tenney.[2] The chapel was designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury. The earliest burial is estimated to be about 1850; whereas the number of burials before 1960 is unknown, there have been 896 burials since 1960.
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| Location | Methuen, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°43′23″N 71°11′27″W / 42.72306°N 71.19083°W |
| Built | 1853 |
| MPS | Methuen MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002444[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 20, 1984 |
The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
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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 Walnut Grove Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
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