Swan Point Cemetery

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Swan Point Cemetery
Entrance sign for Swan Point Cemetery
Location Providence, Rhode Island
Built 1846
Architect Multiple
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference #

77000007

[1]
Added to NRHP October 5, 1977

Swan Point Cemetery is a cemetery located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Established in 1846 on a 60 acre (0.24 km²) plot of land, it has approximately 40,000 interments.[2][3]

History

First organized under the Swan Point Cemetery Company, with a board of trustees. In 1858, a new charter was developed to make the cemetery administration non-profit, and it was taken over by a group known as the Proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery. In 1886, landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland was hired to redesign the area.

Among the first to make use of a tract of land within the cemetery was the First Congregational Society (now First Unitarian Society). They moved several interments from older plots in Providence to Swan Point. Over the years additional land acquisition has expanded the cemetery to 200 acres (0.81 km2), and is still open to new interments today.

Swan Point Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Notable interments

Swan Point has the burials of many notable Rhode Island figures:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. 
  2. ↑ "Swan Point Cemetery". Findagrave. Retrieved 2013-11-23. 
  3. ↑ "Celebrating life since 1846". Retrieved 2013-11-23. "Swan Point Cemetery was established in 1846 on a 60-acre tract of land bordering The Neck Road (now The Old Road) and extending easterly to the shore of the Seekonk River. ..." 

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