Pine Grove Cemetery (Blanchard, Idaho)
Pine Grove Cemetery can refer to: :(sorted by state, then city/town) * Pine Grove Cemetery (Leominster, Massachusetts), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Worcester County * Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn, Massachusetts) * Pine Grove Cemetery (Truro, Massachusetts), National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Barnstable County {{disambig ...
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Pine Grove Cemetery (Leominster, Massachusetts)
The Pine Grove Cemetery, also known as the First Meetinghouse Burying Ground, is an historic cemetery on Tremaine and Main Streets in Leominster, Massachusetts. Established in 1742, it is the city's oldest cemetery, and the principal surviving element of the town's early settlement. It was originally located adjacent to the community's first meeting house, built in 1741 and dismantled in 1774. The cemetery, closed to burials since 1937, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 12, 2008. Description and history Leominster was settled in the early 18th century as part of Lancaster, and was separately incorporated in 1740. Its first colonial meeting house was built in 1741, and the cemetery was laid out the following year. The meeting house was torn down in 1774, after a new one was built near the modern city center. The cemetery was enlarged in 1776, and again in the 1820s to reach its present size of . It was the city's only cemetery until 1840, when ...
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