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65: 894: 90: 51: 235:. It is directly opposite Orchard Hill Road, and adjacent to the drive to the Bradford Swim Club. The land it occupies is roughly pentagonal in shape, and is fronted by a finished stone retaining wall, with a small flight if granite steps for access. The remaining sides of the cemetery are demarcated by fieldstone walls. The terrain is generally level but sloping gently downhill to the north, and is basically grass dotted with mature trees. 906: 438: 883: 97: 72: 238:
Most of the graves are arranged in a generally east-facing orientation, but this is not always exact, and there is one row of graves that faces north. The oldest graves are in the easternmost section. Although there are areas without any burial markers, ground-penetrating radar was used to identify
521: 219:. The 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) cemetery was established in 1665, on land given by John Heseltine to the town of Bradford. The oldest readable marker in the cemetery has a date of 1689, but there are likely to be older burials. The cemetery was listed on the 829: 824: 819: 452: 931: 517: 497: 492: 487: 457: 507: 477: 379: 512: 502: 482: 462: 941: 851: 472: 467: 267: 856: 804: 684: 638: 571: 734: 709: 669: 597: 566: 545: 814: 750: 719: 674: 659: 654: 809: 714: 704: 607: 724: 699: 689: 664: 617: 602: 592: 576: 550: 760: 755: 729: 694: 679: 622: 612: 372: 786: 781: 886: 388: 365: 946: 956: 242:
The cemetery was established in 1665 by the early founders of Bradford, which was incorporated in 1672, and was annexed to Haverhill in the 19th century. It was the site of the town's first two
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The Bradford Burial Ground is located to the southeast of the center of Bradford village, on the north side of Salem Street, a through road connecting Bradford to
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project in the 1930s. The cemetery is now formally cared for by the city of Haverhill, although most of its maintenance is performed by volunteers.
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at least 100 potential grave sites that lack markers. The most recent burials date to the 1950s.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts
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1665 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Bradford Burial Ground is located in Massachusetts
Bradford Burial Ground is located in the United States
Haverhill, Massachusetts
42°45′34″N 71°3′50″W / 42.75944°N 71.06389°W / 42.75944; -71.06389
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Bradford
Haverhill, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places
Georgetown
colonial meeting houses
King Philip's War
American Civil War
Works Progress Administration
National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts


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National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"NRHP nomination for Bradford Burial Ground"
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