List of cemeteries in Connecticut explained

This list of cemeteries in Connecticut includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries.

Fairfield County

Adath Israel Cemetery, Fairfield
Adath Yeshuren Cemetery, Fairfield
Agudath Shalom Cemetery, Stamford
B’nai Israel Cemetery, Fairfield
B’nai Israel Cemetery, Danbury
B’nai Israel Cemetery, Monroe
B’nai Israel Cemetery, Shelton
Baptist Cemetery, Danbury
The Byram Cemetery, Greenwich
Center Cemetery, Bethel^[1]
Central Cemetery, Brookfield^[2]
Children of Israel (Jewish) Cemetery, Danbury
Christian Church Cemetery, Danbury
Come's Cemetery, Danbury
Congregational Church Cemetery, Bethel
East Cemetery, Fairfield
East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk
Elmwood Cemetery, Bethel
Fairfield Memorial Park, Stamford
Fairlawn Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Gallows Hill Cemetery, Brookfield
Great Plain Cemetery, Danbury
Gregory's Four Corners Burial Ground, Trumbull
Hurlbutt Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Independent Hebrew Cemetery, Norwalk
Kenosia or Lake Cemetery, Danbury
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Brookfield
Lounsbury-Rockwell Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Long Ridge Union Cemetery, Stamford
Lower Starr's Plain Cemetery, Danbury
Loyalty Cemetery, Fairfield
Lutheran Cemetery, Danbury
Mapleshade Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Memorial Garden of The Unitarian Church, Westport
Mill Hill Burying Ground, Norwalk
Mill Plain Cemetery, Danbury
Miry Brook Cemetery, Danbury
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport
New Catholic Cemetery, Danbury
North Main Street Cemetery, Danbury
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield
Old Long Ridge Cemetery, Danbury
Old Westville Cemetery, Danbury
Pembroke Cemetery, Danbury
Pine Island Cemetery, Norwalk
Rodeph Sholom Cemetery, Fairfield
Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk
Roxbury Cemetery, Stamford
Scott’s or Gage’s Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut
St. Augustine Cemetery, Bridgeport
St. James Cemetery, Bridgeport
St. James Cemetery, Danbury
St. John's Cemetery, Norwalk
St. Mary's Cemetery, Bethel
St. Mary's Cemetery, Norwalk
St. Mary's Church Cemetery, Bethel
St. Paul's On the Green Cemetery, Norwalk
St. Playton'st Cemetery, Danbury
St. Rose Cemetery, Newtown
Stepney Cemetery, Monroe
Stony Hill Cemetery, Bethel
Titicus Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Cemetery, Redding
Union Cemetery, Easton
Union Cemetery, Norwalk
Willowbrook Cemetery, Westport
Wolfpits Cemetery, Bethel
Wooster Street Cemetery, Danbury

Hartford County

Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford^[3]
Blue Hills Cemetery, Berlin
Bridge Cemetery, Berlin
Buckland Cemetery, Manchester
Canton Center Cemetery, Canton
Canton Street Cemetery, Canton
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford
Center Street Cemetery, Burlington
Century Cemetery, Marlborough
Dyer Cemetery, Canton
East Cemetery, Manchester
Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield
Evergreen Cemetery, Avon
Glastonbury Green Cemetery, Glastonbury
Green Cemetery, Glastonbury
Greenwood Cemetery, Avon
Maple Hill Cemetery, Berlin
North Canton Cemetery, Canton
Old Eastbury Cemetery, Glastonbury
Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield
Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery, Burlington
South Burying Ground, Kensington, Berlin
St. Mary's Cemetery, Avon
St. Patrick's Cemetery, Canton
Village Cemetery, Canton
West Cemetery, Manchester
West Lane Cemetery, Berlin

Litchfield County

Abbey of Regina Laudis Cemetery, Bethlehem
Ashley Falls Cemetery, North Canaan
Canaan Valley Cemetery, North Canaan
Hillside Cemetery, North Canaan
Judea Cemetery, Washington
Lower Cemetery, North Canaan
New Milford Center Cemetery, New Milford
Old North Road Burying Ground, (also known as Winchester Cemetery), Winsted
Roxbury Center Cemetery, Roxbury
Sons of Jacob Cemetery, Torrington
South Cemetery, Colebrook
St. Joseph's Cemetery, North Canaan
Townhill Cemetery, New Hartford
West Cemetery, Litchfield

Middlesex County

Ackley Cemetery, East Haddam
Bashan Lake Cemetery, East Haddam
Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
Cove Cemetery, Hadlyme North Historic District, East Haddam
Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook
Foxtown Cemetery, East Haddam
Hog Hill Cemetery, East Hampton
Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown
Minor Cemetery, Middletown
Millington Cemetery, East Haddam
Moodus Cemetery, East Haddam
Mortimer Cemetery, Middletown
Old Cemetery, Portland
Old Cove Cemetery, East Haddam
Riverside Cemetery, Middletown
Riverside Cemetery, Old Saybrook
River View Cemetery, East Haddam
Swedish Cemetery, Portland
Tater Hill Cemetery, East Haddam
Warner Cemetery, East Haddam

New Haven County

Beth Shalom Cemetery, Orange
Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven
Gunntown Cemetery, Naugatuck
Milford Cemetery, Milford
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hamden
Naugatuck Grove Cemetery, Naugatuck
Olde Uptown Burial Ground (also known as Colonial Cemetery), Derby - historians believe this may be the oldest public cemetery in the US
Orange Center Cemetery, Orange
Paugassett Burial Grounds (also known as Paugussett Settlement Site), Ansonia (formerly Derby)
Pine Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls
Pine Grove Cemetery, Ansonia^[4]
St. James Cemetery, Naugatuck
St. Michael's Cemetery, Derby^[5]
Saint John Catholic Cemetery, Wallingford
Saint Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven

New London County

Almshouse Cemetery, Norwich
Ames Cemetery, Lisbon
Antientest Burial Ground, New London
Avery Cemetery, Preston
Avery Morgan Burying Ground, Groton
Brewster's Neck Cemetery, Preston
Col Ledyard Cemetery, Groton
Congregational Church Cemetery, Lyme
Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme
Exeter Cemetery, Lebanon
Goshen Cemetery, Lebanon
Guiles Stafford Cemetery, Preston
Johnson Cemetery, Bozrah
Lebanon Center Cemetery, Lebanon
Liberty Hill Cemetery, Lebanon
Linwood Cemetery, Colchester
Long Society Congregational Burying Ground, Preston
New Poquetanuck Cemetery, Preston
Oak Street Cemetery, Norwich
Old Burial Ground, Colchester
Old Cemetery, Lebanon
Old Kinne Burying Ground, Griswold
Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich
Old Poquetanuck Cemetery, Preston
Pachaug Cemetery, Griswold
Packer Cemetery, Groton
Palmer Cemetery, Preston
Pautipaug Cemetery, Franklin
Plains Cemetery, Franklin
Preston City Cemetery, Preston
Read-Haskell Cemetery, Lisbon
Rixtown Cemetery, Griswold
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Norwich
St. Mary's Cemetery, Norwich
Stone Church Cemetery, East Lyme
Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon
Whitehall Cemetery, Mystic

Tolland County

Andover Road Cemetery, Hebron
Bolton Center Cemetery, Bolton
Center Cemetery, Somers
Ellington Center Cemetery, Ellington
Gilead Cemetery, Hebron
Godfrey Hill Cemetery, Hebron
Grant Hill Cemetery, Coventry
Jones Street Cemetery, Hebron
Mansfield Center Cemetery, Mansfield
Nathan Hale Cemetery, Coventry
New Andover Cemetery, Andover
- - - - New Storrs Cemetery, Mansfield Old Cemetery, Columbia Old Andover Cemetery, Andover Olde Mansfield Center Cemetery, Mansfield Old Storrs Cemetery, Mansfield Old Willington Hill Cemetery, Willington Old Yard Cemetery, Columbia Pink Ravine Cemetery, Mansfield Quarryville Cemetery, Bolton South Cemetery, Tolland St. Peter's Cemetery, Hebron Silver Street Cemetery, Coventry Skungamaug Cemetery, Tolland South Street Cemetery, Coventry Townsend Cemetery, Andover Union Center Cemetery, Union

Windham County

Abington Cemetery, Pomfret
Aspinwall Cemetery, Putnam
Bara-Hack Cemetery, Pomfret
Bungay Cemetery, Woodstock
East Woodstock Cemetery, Woodstock
Litchfield Cemetery, Hampton
New South Killingly Cemetery, Killingly
North Cemetery, Hampton
Old Cemetery, Eastford
Old Scotland Cemetery North, Scotland
Old South Killingly Cemetery, Killingly
Palmertown Cemetery, Scotland
Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield
South Cemetery, Ashford
South Cemetery, Brooklyn
South Cemetery, Hampton
South Cemetery, Pomfret
Snow Cemetery, Ashford
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Killingly
Swamp Burying Ground, Ashford
Warrenville Cemetery, Ashford
West Thompson Cemetery, Thompson
Westford Cemetery, Ashford
Westford Hill Cemetery, Ashford
Windham Center Cemetery, Windham
Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock
Woodward Cemetery, Ashford

Notes and References

Web site: The Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions .
Web site: Central Cemetery & Laurel Hill Cemetery . CentralCemetery.net.
Rogak, Lisa (2004), Stones and Bones of New England: A guide to unusual, historic, and otherwise notable cemeteries, Globe Pequat
http://pinegrovecemeteryct.com/ Pine Grove Cemetery
Web site: Saint Michael Church » St. Michael Cemetery . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171225151246/http://saintmichaelsderby.org/st-michael-cemetery/ . 2017-12-25 . saintmichaelsderby.org.