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Old Urban Cemetery

Coordinates: 18°26′16″N 67°09′22″W / 18.437842°N 67.156199°W / 18.437842; -67.156199
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Old Urban Cemetery
Locator map
Locator map
Location of Aguadilla and the Old Urban Cemetery in Puerto Rico
LocationAt the foot of Cuesta Vieja
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Coordinates18°26′16″N 67°09′22″W / 18.437842°N 67.156199°W / 18.437842; -67.156199
Built1813
ArchitectSpanish Corps of Engineers
NRHP reference No.85000042[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 2, 1985

Old Urban Cemetery, also known as Cementerio Municipal, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, is a cemetery with burials back to 1813 or 1814. Near the town of Aguadilla's north entrance, it spreads between the beach and the foot of the mountain, and is enclosed by mortar and stone walls. Many of its older tombs, made of brick, stone and mortar, were damaged in a 1918 earthquake (presumably the 1918 San Fermín earthquake).[2]

Use of the cemetery began when burials were no longer allowed in the churchyard. Graves include that of poet-laureate José de Jesús Esteves, painter Rafael Arroyo Gely, and Luis R. Esteves (the first Puerto Rican graduate of West Point).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b Jose Rafael Bourdony (1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Urban Cemetery / Cemeterio Municipal". National Park Service. Retrieved December 24, 2016. with eight photos from 1984