The Pine Grove Cemetery is the second oldest cemetery in
Truro, Massachusetts
Truro is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located slightly more than 100 miles (160 km) by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the n ...
. The cemetery was established in 1799; it is located on Cemetery Road in a remote area of the
Cape Cod National Seashore
The Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) encompasses on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. CCNS was created on August 7, 1961, by President John F. Kennedy, when he signed a bill enacting the legislation he first co-sponsored as a Senator a few years pr ...
. Originally established by Truro's Methodists, the cemetery was located near a church which has not survived. The cemetery is surrounded by a fence made of granite posts connected by iron rails. Access to its interior is via a gravel roadway that roughly bisects the property from east to west; there is also a grassy path to a pedestrian gate on the south side. Burials in the cemetery date from 1799 to the recent past.
The cemetery was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2013.
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Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Cemeteries in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Truro, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Cape Cod National Seashore
1799 establishments in Massachusetts
Cemeteries established in the 1790s