Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn, Massachusetts)
- Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn, Massachusetts)
Pine Grove Cemetery is a cemetery located in Lynn, Massachusetts. It was established in the mid-1800s and it consists of about 82 to 250 developed acres. There are approximately 88,000 to 90,000 interments at the cemetery.
History
It was originally established as a private cemetery, but in 1850 it was sold to the city of Lynn. In 1930, a wall was built by the WPA to surround the cemetery, and according to Ripley's Believe It or Not it is the “second longest contiguous stone wall in the world,” second only to the Great Wall of China. The cemetery got it's name from the plethora of pine trees surrounding Rhodes Memorial Chapel and the cemeteries entrance.
Features and landmarks
Pine Grove Cemetery has many notable features and landmarks:
*The Cemetery Office Building, erected in 1860.
*The Pine Grove Cemetery Receiving Tomb, constructed from 1866 to 1868. Built in a Ruskinian Gothic style, it was part of a building campaign following the Civil War. It it made of granite ashlar construction with a cast iron doorway.
*The Rhodes Memorial Chapel, built in 1891. It was built using a donation from a Ms. Amos Rhodes in a Richardsonian Romanesque style. The stain glass windows are valued at over $10,000.
*The Cemetery’s Greenhouse, whose operations have been noted throughout the country.
Notable interments
*John Adams
*Harry Agganis
*John Alley
*Daisy Davis
*Benjamin Franklin Falls
*Henry Lovering
*Lydia Pinkham
*William Poole
*Elihu Thomson
*Charles Herbert Woodbury
References
* [http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/citydepartments_pinegrove_cemetery.shtml Pine Grove Cemetery]
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