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Walnut Grove Cemetery
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| Location: | Methuen, Massachusetts |
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| Built: | 1853 |
| Architect: | Unknown |
| Governing body: | Local |
| MPS: | Methuen MRA |
| NRHP Reference#: |
84002444 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | January 20, 1984 |
Walnut Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Grove and Railroads Streets in Methuen, Massachusetts. The still active cemetery sits on 14 acres (57,000 m2) and is privately funded with a Board of Directors.
Within the cemetery is the Tenney Memorial Chapel given by the Daneil G. Tenney in 1927 as a memorial to his parents Charles H. Tenney and Fannie Haseltine (Gleason) Tenney. The Chapel was designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury. The earliest burial is estimated to be approx 1850, whereas the number of burials before 1960 is unknown, there have been 896 burials since 1960.
The cemetery was founded in 1853 and added to the National Historic Register in 1984.
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