Milton Cemetery
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Milton Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 211 Centre Street in Milton, Massachusetts. Established in 1672, it is the town's only municipal burying ground. There are three distinct sections to its Script error: No such module "convert". grounds: the original burying ground, a tract of Script error: No such module "convert". which was in use between 1672 and 1854, a "new" section, laid out in 1854 in the rural cemetery style which was fashionable in the 19th century, and a "modern" section, established in 1945.[1]
It was founded in 1672 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Among those interred in the cemetery are:
- Dennis Miller Bunker, American Impressionist Painter
- James A. Burke, United States Representative from Massachusetts
- Elbie Fletcher, Major League Baseball player
- Edward A. Gisburne, United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Nathaniel Carl Goodwin, actor and vaudevillian
- Howard Deering Johnson, businessman and founder of the Howard Johnson's restaurant and hotel chain
- Wendell Phillips, abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and orator
- Steve Trapilo, player in the National Football League
- Paul H. Weinert, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
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- Milton, Massachusetts
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
- Gothic Revival architecture in Massachusetts
- Cemeteries in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Milton, Massachusetts
- Rural cemeteries
- Cemeteries established in the 17th century