Lowell Cemetery

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Lowell Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Gate, Lawrence Street

Location	77 Knapp Ave. Lowell, Massachusetts
Nearest city	Lowell, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°37′43″N 71°17′34″W / 42.62861°N 71.29278°W / 42.62861; -71.29278Coordinates: 42°37′43″N 71°17′34″W / 42.62861°N 71.29278°W / 42.62861; -71.29278
Built	1841
NRHP Reference #	98000543
Added to NRHP	May 20, 1998

Lowell Cemetery is a cemetery located in Lowell, Massachusetts. Founded in 1841 and located on the banks of the Concord River, the cemetery is one of the oldest garden cemeteries in the nation, inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Many of Lowell's wealthy industrialists are buried here, under ornate Victorian tombstones.

Ayer Lion, resting place of Dr. James Cook Ayer, patent medicine tycoon.

Persons Buried Here

Henry Livermore Abbott - Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Charles Herbert Allen - Congressman; First US civilian governor of Puerto Rico
Frederick Ayer - Industrialist; Co-Founder of the American Woolen Company
James Cook Ayer - Patent Medicine tycoon
Benjamin Dean - Congressman
James B. Francis - Chief Engineer of Proprietors of Locks and Canals
Frederic T. Greenhalge - United States Congressman and Governor of Massachusetts
Chauncey Langdon Knapp - Congressman
John Locke - Congressman
John Jacob Rogers - Congressman
Edith Norse Rogers - Congressman
Augustin Thompson - Inventor of Moxie
Paul Tsongas - United States Senator
Tappan Wentworth - Congressman

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