Wildwood Cemetery

Wildwood Cemetery
Location 34 Palmer Street, Winchester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°27′17″N 71°8′48″W / 42.45472°N 71.14667°WCoordinates: 42°27′17″N 71°8′48″W / 42.45472°N 71.14667°W
Built 1851
Architect Farrier,Amasa
Architectural style No Style Listed
Governing body Local
MPS Winchester MRA
NRHP Reference #

89000658

[1]
Added to NRHP July 5, 1989

Wildwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Palmer and Wildwood Streets in Winchester, Massachusetts.

The cemetery was founded in 1851 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. This cemetery was started using part of the $3000.00 gift from Colonel William P. Winchester that was donated on condition that the town be named after him.[2] Wildwood Cemetery was designed by landscape design pioneer Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape designer of Central Park in New York).[3][4]

Notable persons buried in the cemetery include Massachusetts Governor Samuel Walker McCall (1851-1923), Rev. Howard James Chidley (1878-1966), engineer Harold Kilbrith Barrows (1873-1954), linguist Joshua Whatmough (1897-1964), artist Joseph Foxcroft Cole (1837-1892), and artist Dana Pond (1881-1962).[5]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ Frank Sleeper, Winchester, p. 118 (Arcadia Publishing 1995).
  3. ↑ http://www.nps.gov/frla/upload/FA-Records-of-the-OA-at-the-LC.pdf
  4. ↑ http://ww3.rediscov.com/olmsted/default.asp?include=search.htm
  5. ↑ Thomas Spencer. Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated (Genealogical Publishing, 1998).