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Mansfield Center Cemetery
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| Location: | Jct. of Storrs and Cemetery Rds., Mansfield, Connecticut |
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| Area: | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built: | 1693 |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 92000905 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | July 24, 1992 |
Mansfield Center Cemetery is a small cemetery in the Mansfield Center section of Mansfield, Connecticut, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It includes some 300 to 400 headstones.[2]
The site was set aside for use as a cemetery as early as 1693 and it remained in general use for that purpose until the 1870s.[2] The cemetery's 18th-century gravestones, decorated with cherubim, geometric designs, and a variety of funerary symbols, are considered to be illustrative of the rich artistic tradition of funerary stone carving in colonial New England.[2]
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