Swan Point Cemetery

Swan Point Cemetery

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location= Providence, Rhode Island
locmapin = Rhode Island
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built =1846
architect= Multiple
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added = October 05, 1977
governing_body = Private
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Swan Point Cemetery is a cemetery located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Established in 1846 on a 60 acre (0.24 km²) plot of land. It has approximately 40,000 interments.

History

First organized under the Swan Point Cemetery Company, with a board of trustees. In 1858, a new charter was developed to make the cemetery administration non-profit, and it was taken over by a group known as the Proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery. In 1886, landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland was hired to redesign the area.

Among the first to make use of a tract of land within the cemetery was the First Congregational Society (now First Unitarian Society). They moved several interments from older plots in Providence to Swan Point. Over the years additional land acquisition has expanded the cemetery to 200 acres, and is still open to new interments today.

Swan Point Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Notable interments

Swan Point has the burials of many notable Rhode Island figures:

*David Aldrich, American Artist.
*Nelson W. Aldrich, US Congressman, US Senator, grandfather of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.
*Richard Steere Aldrich, US Congressman, son of Nelson W. Aldrich.
*Henry B. Anthony, Governor of Rhode Island, and President pro tempore of the US Senate.
*Lemuel H. Arnold, US Congressman, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Richard Arnold, Union army general.
*Sullivan Ballou, state politician, Civil War veteran, died at the First Battle of Bull Run.
*Ambrose Burnside, Governor of Rhode Island, Civil War veteran, US Senator.
*Adin Ballou Capron, US Congressman.
*Benjamin Ham Child, Medal of Honor recipient for action during the Battle of Antietam in the Civil War.
*Thomas Davis, US Congressman.
*Thomas Wilson Dorr, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Elisha Dyer, Governor of Rhode Island
*Elisha Dyer Jr., Governor of Rhode Island, Mayor of the city of Providence
*Benjamin Tucker Eames, US Congressman.
*C. M. Eddy, Jr., Author
*Theodore Foster, US Senator
*Albert Gallup, US Congressman
*Lucius F. C. Garvin, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Daniel Larned Davis Granger, US Congressman.
*Theodore F. Green, US Senator, Governor of Rhode Island.
*William Warner Hoppin, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Charles Tillinghast James, US Senator.
*Thomas Allen Jenckes, US Congressman.
*William Jones, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Herbert W. Ladd, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Benedict Lapham, industrialist, philanthropist
*Oscar Lapham, US Congressman.
*Henry Lippitt, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Henry Frederick Lippitt, US Senator.
*Alfred Henry Littlefield, Governor of Rhode Island.
*H. P. Lovecraft, Influential Author.
*Jesse Houghton Metcalf, US Senator.
*Robert H. Nisbet, artist, founder of the Kent Art Association
*Seth Padelford, Governor of Rhode Island.
*Royal C. Taft, Governor of Rhode Island

External links

* [http://swanpointcemetery.com/ Swan Point Cemetery]

References

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1584940 Find A Grave: Swan Point Cemetery]


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