North Burial Ground

	North Burial Ground
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Entry marker to North Burial Ground
Location:	Providence, Rhode Island
Built:	1700
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	77000003
Added to NRHP:	September 13, 1977

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Mowry Tavern (now demolished), a stone-ender on Abbott St., as it looked in ca. 1885, with the Cemetery behind it

The North Burial Ground is a 110-acre (0.45 km²) cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island, dating to 1700. Providence had no public burial ground and no Common until the year 1700 (64 years after its founding) because Rhode Island's religious and government institutions were so rigorously kept distinct, dating back to its founding by Roger Williams in 1636. Before creating this cemetery, townspeople buried their dead in family plots on individual farms.

[edit] Prominent people buried here

Zachariah Allen, prominent Providence mill owner and civic leader
William B. Avery, Medal of Honor recipient
Edward Mitchell Bannister, African American painter
Chad Brown, early pastor of the First Baptist Church in America, progenitor of Brown family
John Brown, merchant, U.S. Representative, slave trader, co-founder of Brown University
Nicholas Cooke, governor of colony and state of Rhode Island during American Revolutionary War
Fred Corey, Major League Baseball player
Gregory Dexter, early president of Rhode Island colony
James Fenner, governor from 1805 to 1807
Sam Walter Foss, librarian, poet.
Stephen Hopkins, colonial governor, Founding Father, signatory of the Declaration of Independence
Joseph Jenckes, colonial governor of Rhode Island, 1727-1732
Horace Mann, educator, founder of Antioch College, U.S. Representative
Annie Smith Peck, pioneering woman mountaineer
Henry J. Steere, philanthropist, manufacturer
Sarah Helen Whitman, poet, essayist, and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe
Charles J. Martin, artist and arts instructor

[edit] References

Rhode Island Cemeteries Database

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.

[edit] See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island

[edit] Images

Early 1900s postcard of North Burial Ground
Entry flag and marker to North Burial Ground
Dexter family monument with governor's flags for Gregory Dexter, colonial President
Grave monument for Governor Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Grave plaque for Governor Stephen Hopkins
DAR grave plaque for Sarah Hopkins, wife of Governor Stephen Hopkins
Governor Nicholas Cooke grave monument
Nicholas Cooke governor's medallion
Governor James Fenner mausoleum
James Fenner governor's medallion