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The Old Cemetery, also known as the Milk Row Cemetery, is a historic cemetery on Somerville Avenue and School Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. Established in 1804 on land donated by Samuel Tufts, it is the city's oldest cemetery. The cemetery was established when Somerville was still a part of Charlestown, and many Somerville residents used that city's 
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Maine Civil War Monuments: Hampden
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Somerville Civil War Monuments
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Phipps Street Burying Ground
The Phipps Street Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Phipps Street in Charlestown, now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. With
History
The burial ground was created in 1630, when Charlestown was a separate community from Boston; ...
, and later the Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery, rural, or garden, cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middl ...
in Cambridge instead of this one. As a result, this cemetery remained small, and was the only one established within the city limits in the 19th century.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The city of Somerville
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Places
*Somerville, Victoria, Australia
* Somerville, Western Australia, a suburb of Kalgoorlie, Australia
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opens the Cemetery for tours during the spring through early fall, and holds a special event called "Ghosts of Somerville" in concert with the annual Halloween Monster Mash event. Costumed guides accompany visitors through some of the historically relevant graves, which includes one of an unknown British soldier of the Revolutionary War era that was discovered and relocated during nearby street reconstruction.
Civil War monument
The American Civil War monument, erected in 1863, is reputed to be one of the first in the nation. Inscriptions around the base include text to honor the service of the SLI, or Somerville Light Infantry, as well as the names of soldiers fallen in the war. The monument was built under the supervision of a committee of the Somerville Light Infantry, and funded by donations. Names and regiments are engraved on the monument, but the list is incomplete. The lot in the cemetery was a gift of Enoch Robinson, and the monument was manufactured by Power & Hall, manufacturers of marble goods of Boston. That firm's junior partner, Charles E. Hall, was a Somerville resident. That same firm created a Civil War monument for Hampden, Maine the following year./ref>
See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, MassachusettsReferences
External links
Somerville Civil War Monuments
from "Massachusetts Civil War Monuments Project" {{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Somerville, Massachusetts Cemeteries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Somerville, Massachusetts