Mansfield Center Cemetery

Mansfield Center Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	Jct. of Storrs and Cemetery Rds., Mansfield, Connecticut
Coordinates:	41°45′43″N 72°11′46″W / 41.76194°N 72.19611°W / 41.76194; -72.19611Coordinates: 41°45′43″N 72°11′46″W / 41.76194°N 72.19611°W / 41.76194; -72.19611
Area:	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built:	1693
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	92000905 [1]
Added to NRHP:	July 24, 1992

Mansfield Center Cemetery is a small cemetery in the Mansfield Center section of Mansfield, Connecticut, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It includes some 300 to 400 headstones.^[2]

The site was set aside for use as a cemetery as early as 1693 and it remained in general use for that purpose until the 1870s.^[2] The cemetery's 18th-century gravestones, decorated with cherubim, geometric designs, and a variety of funerary symbols, are considered to be illustrative of the rich artistic tradition of funerary stone carving in colonial New England.^[2]

See also

• Mansfield Center Historic District, also NRHP-listed

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Bruce Clouette (February 26, 1992). "NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Mansfield Center Cemetery". National Park Service. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/92000905.pdf.  and Accompanying 16 photos, from 1991