Mount Hope Cemetery (Boston)
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| Location | 355 Walk Hill Street, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°17′2″N 71°6′9″W / 42.28389°N 71.10250°W |
| Area | 125 acres (51 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 09000767[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 25, 2009 |
Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. It was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It is the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.[1]
Interments
- Leonard Chadwick, Medal of Honor recipient.[3]
- George Dixon, first Canadian and first black world boxing champion.[4]
- Gottlieb Graupner, musician[5]
- Roland Hayes, lyric tenor, first African American to sing at Carnegie Hall[6]
- Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson, American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.[7]
- Michael "King" Kelly, Hall of Fame baseball player[8]
- Susie Taylor, first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves, first black Army nurse[9]
- Theodore Dwight Weld, abolitionist[10]
- One British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Canadian Air Force officer of World War II.[11]
- Sarah Moore Grimké, Proponent of Abolition and Women's Rights; Sister of Angelina Emily Grimké Weld[12]
- Angelina Grimké, Proponent of Abolition and Women's Rights; Sister of Sarah Moore Grimké; Spouse of Theodore Dwight Weld[12]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Mount Hope Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ^ vconline
- ^ BlackThen
- ^ Catherine Graupner Stone, quoted in: Philip Hale, "The birth-date of Gottlieb Graupner", Boston Symphony Orchestra Programme for 29th season, 1909-1910 (Boston: The Orchestra, 1910)
- ^ Roland Hayes
- ^ New England Public Radio
- ^ Baseball Necrology
- ^ Civil War Women
- ^ Worcester Women's History Project
- ^ "Casualty Details". Cwgc.org. 1943-07-20. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- ^ a b Notable American Women, 1607-1950
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