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Hope Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts)

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76: 1068: 101: 62: 1080: 612: 1057: 250:. The cemetery was laid out, probably by a landscape designer (although none has been identified), in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes that take advantage of the terrain. It also includes horticultural plantings of note, another hallmark of the rural cemetery style, including several distinguished specimens of beech, Norway maple, sugar maple, cedar, ash, and oak trees. 108: 83: 522: 254:
The third burying ground, Raccoon Plain, was a small cemetery with sixteen burials, all of which were reinterred here in 1857. The fourth burying ground, at Mechanic Street, had more than 1000 burials, which were moved here in 1878–79. The Pine Meadow Burying Ground's 658 interments were relocated here between 1862 and 1878.
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Worcester's first burying ground was located at Thomas and Summer Streets, and was established in 1713, and had seventeen graves marked by stone mounds, and the second burying ground, located on the Worcester Common, had more than 100 burials, all of which were relocated here in the 20th century.
230:. Established in 1854, it was the city's sixth public cemetery, and is the burial site of remains originally interred at its first five cemeteries. Its landscaping and funerary art are examplars of the rural cemetery movement, and the cemetery was listed on the 695: 1003: 998: 391: 993: 626: 1110: 691: 671: 666: 661: 631: 396: 681: 651: 553: 686: 676: 656: 636: 1025: 646: 641: 1030: 978: 858: 812: 745: 908: 883: 843: 771: 740: 719: 1120: 988: 924: 893: 848: 833: 828: 983: 888: 878: 781: 898: 873: 863: 838: 791: 776: 766: 750: 724: 934: 929: 903: 868: 853: 796: 786: 546: 960: 955: 1060: 562: 539: 950: 1035: 75: 1135: 601: 591: 141: 100: 526: 1105: 242:
Hope Cemetery is located in far southern Worcester, atop a rise known as Webster Hill, which has commanding views to the north and east, including the campuses of
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Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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in 1997. The cemetery occupies 168 acres (68 ha).
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Hope Cemetery
Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Hope Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
Hope Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Worcester, Massachusetts
42°14′10″N 71°49′34″W / 42.23611°N 71.82611°W / 42.23611; -71.82611
97001560
rural cemetery
Worcester, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places
Clark University
College of the Holy Cross
Agnes Ballard
Florida
Elizabeth Bishop
Loring Coes
Monkey wrench
Abby Kelley Foster
Stephen Symonds Foster
abolitionist
Robert Goddard
liquid-fueled
rocket
John Bartholomew Gough
Iver Johnson
Charles H. Pinkham
Medal of Honor
Thomas Plunkett

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