Daddy Frye's Hill Cemetery

Daddy Frye's Hill Cemetery
Daddy Frye's Hill Cemetery
Daddy Frye's Hill Cemetery c.2009
Daddy Frye's Hill Cemetery is located in Massachusetts
Location: Methuen, Massachusetts
Coordinates: 42°43′31″N 71°9′58″W / 42.72528°N 71.16611°W / 42.72528; -71.16611Coordinates: 42°43′31″N 71°9′58″W / 42.72528°N 71.16611°W / 42.72528; -71.16611
Built: 1728
Architectural style: No Style Listed
Governing body: Local
MPS: Methuen MRA
NRHP Reference#:

84002320

[1]
Added to NRHP: January 20, 1984

Daddy Frye's Hill Cemetery founded in 1728, is a historic cemetery at East and Arlington Streets in Methuen, Massachusetts.

The cemetery is more commonly known as Meeting House Hill, so named because on this site was erected the first Meeting House 1728-1796, the Second Meeting House 1798-1832. This building was removed in 1832, and replaced by the present stone church in 1855, which retains some of the timbers from the 1796 structure. Afterward the hill became more commonly known as Daddy Frye's Hill, for Jeremiah Frye, who kept a large tavern on the northwest corner of the intersection of East and Brook Streets.[2]

Here lies buried the founders of the Town of Methuen and the first Minister Reverend Christopher Sargent. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places January 20, 1984.

Plaque on Cemetery Granite Wall
Daddy Frye's Tavern c.1900


See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Mack, Ernest G. (1976). Bridges from the Past. Methuen, MA: Methuen News.