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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. For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Clinton, please see the article Clinton (CDP), Massach ...
. 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 listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The locations of NRHP properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be ...


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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