Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Woodlawn Street in
Clinton, Massachusetts
Clinton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 15,428 at the 2020 census.
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. The oldest portion was laid out in 1853 by Joshua Thissell in the
rural cemetery style popular at the time, and was one of the first municipal projects following the town's incorporation. It occupies a hilly parcel of over , about from the center of town. It was expanded twice, in the 1890s and in the 1920s. Prominent burials include Erastus and Horatio Bigelow, the town's early leading businessmen.
The cemetery was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on July 23, 2013.
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Cemeteries in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Clinton, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Rural cemeteries
1852 establishments in Massachusetts
Cemeteries established in the 1850s