Shawsheen Cemetery Explained

Shawsheen Cemetery
Location:	Bedford, Massachusetts
Area:	16.87acres
Built:	1849
Added:	June 12, 2007
Refnum:	07000547

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 44acres, but not all of this has been developed.^[1]

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 H. Holbrow (1935–2023) — American physicist and college professor
  • 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

External links

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Notes and References

1. Web site: NRHP nomination for Shawsheen Cemetery. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2014-04-06.