This list of cemeteries in Massachusetts includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed)

cemeteries A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

columbaria A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased. The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "'' colu ...

, and

mausolea A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...

which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries. USA-Granary Burying Ground0

Berkshire County

* Beth Israel Cemetery, North Adams *

Center Cemetery Center Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the south side of Sam Hill Road in Worthington, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established c. 1774 (the date of its earliest marker), and continues to be used today. Its burials include many of the f ...

, Stockbridge

Bristol County

* Assonet Burying Ground, Assonet * Friends-Central Cemetery, Westport * Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River * Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven

Dukes County

* Chilmark Cemetery, Chilmark * Oak Grove Cemetery, Oaks Bluff

Essex County

* Burying Point and Witch Trial Victims Memorial, Salem * Old Burial Hill, Marblehead * Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport * Old North Parish Burying Ground,

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* Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn * Swampscott Cemetery, Swampscott

Franklin County

* Deerfield Cemetery, Deerfield * Green River Cemetery, Greenfield * Hill Cemetery (historic), Shelburne * Arms Cemetery, Shelburne * South Cemetery, Shelburne * East Cemetery, Shelburne * Center Cemetery, Shelburne * Hawks Cemetery, Shelburne

Hampden County

* Bay Path Cemetery, Springfield Rogak, Lisa (2004), ''Stones and Bones of New England: A guide to unusual, historic, and otherwise notable cemeteries'', Globe Pequat; * Springfield Cemetery, Springfield

Hampshire County

* Knights Cemetery, Pelham * Quabbin Park Cemetery, Quabbin Valley * West Cemetery, Amherst, Massachusetts *

Wildwood Cemetery, Amherst, Massachusetts Wildwood Cemetery is an active non-profit cemetery in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, designed and laid out in the late 19th century. History Wildwood Cemetery is a non-denominational, not-for-profit, 81 acre cemetery located near the ce ...

Middlesex County

* Belmont Cemetery, Belmont, Massachusetts * Cambridge Cemetery,

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* Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery,

Watertown, Massachusetts Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End. Watertown ...

Edson Cemetery The Edson Cemetery is a cemetery located in Lowell, Massachusetts, at 1375 Gorham Street. Overview Edson Cemetery was opened as a public burial ground by the city of Lowell in 1846. It was named in honor of Rev. Theodore Edson, who was minister o ...

, Lowell * Forestvale Cemetery,

Hudson, Massachusetts Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, with a total population of 20,092 as of the 2020 census. Before its incorporation as a town in 1866, Hudson was a neighborhood and unincorporated village of Marlborough, Massa ...

* Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum, Malden * Lowell Cemetery, Lowell (1840s) * Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge -

List of burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic, "garden-style" burial ground in Boston, Massachusetts, located between Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, Watertown, and dedicated in 1831. The 174-acre grounds has long been the p ...

* Newton Cemetery,

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* North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery,

* Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford (late 17th century) *

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground at the Old Dutch C ...

Concord Concord may refer to: Meaning "agreement" * Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony) * Harmony, in music * Agreement (linguistics), a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of other ...

* Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough * St. Michael Cemetery,

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* Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester

Nantucket County

* Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket * Prospect Hill Cemetery,

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Norfolk County

* Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline * Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline * Brookdale Cemetery, Dedham *

Old Village Cemetery The Old Village Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Dedham, Massachusetts. History The first portion of the cemetery was set apart at the first recorded meeting of the settlers of Dedham on August 18, 1636, with land taken from Nicholas Phillips a ...

, Dedham *

Baby Cemetery Baby Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Dedham, Massachusetts. The 3,000 square foot plot of land is located at the end of Pond Farm Road, near the border with Westwood. In 1863, Hannah B. Chickering established the Temporary Asylum for Disc ...

, Dedham *

Sharon Memorial Park Sharon Memorial Park is a crematory and cemetery located at 5716 Monroe Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. Notable people interred there include baseball players Bob Porterfield Erwin Coolidge "Bob" Porterfield (August 10, 1923 – April 2 ...

Sharon Sharon ( he, שָׁרוֹן ''Šārôn'' "plain") is a given name as well as an Israeli surname. In English-speaking areas, Sharon is now predominantly a feminine given name. However, historically it was also used as a masculine given name. In I ...

Plymouth County

* Burial Hill, Plymouth * Old Ship Church Cemetery, Hingham * Calvary Cemetery, Brockton

Suffolk County

* Granary Burying Ground, Boston (17th century) * Greek Theology School of Boston

Worcester County

* Evergreen Cemetery, Leominster * Hillside Cemetery, Shrewsbury * Hope Cemetery, Worcester * Quaker Cemetery, Leicester * Worcester County Memorial Park, PaxtonWorcester County Memorial Park website
accessed May 19, 2014. * Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton

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