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walls at one time had wooden fencing mounted on them, but this has been removed. Movement within the cemetery is via a turf cart path that skirts its perimeter, just inside the line of trees, and a series of paths laid out in a grid. Most of the over 600 stones are marble, with most of the rest made of granite. Many of the granite markers are made from stone quarried in nearby
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Worthington's Center Cemetery is located southwest of the town center, on the south side of Sam Hill Road. The roughly rectangular plot is set off from its surroundings by a stone wall on three sides, with a line of mature sugar maples just inside the walls, and running along the fourth side. The
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The oldest stones are in the lowest, westernmost portion of the cemetery. In these sections, stones are laid out without any sort of family grouping. These are more often seen beginning in the 19th century, with bounded family plot areas found near the cemetery's highest land. The area that was
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the last developed is decorated in part with ornamental plantings.
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is a historic cemetery on the south side of Sam Hill Road in
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1774 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Center Cemetery (Southampton, Massachusetts)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Center Cemetery is located in Massachusetts
Center Cemetery is located in the United States
Worthington, Massachusetts
42°23′40″N 72°56′36″W / 42.39444°N 72.94333°W / 42.39444; -72.94333
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Worthington, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places
Goshen
Hampton, Connecticut
Ringville Cemetery
North Cemetery (Worthington, Massachusetts)
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts


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National Register of Historic Places
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"NRHP nomination for Center Cemetery"

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