Ye Olde Burying Ground
Dublin Core
Title
Ye Olde Burying Ground
Subject
Immovable Culture Heritage
Description
Ye Olde Burying Ground is the oldest burial ground in the town of Lexington, MA. The earliest graves here mark back to the 1690s. This cemetery boasts graves of many prominent early Lexington settlers as well as the bodies of soldiers from both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Famously, the first causality of the British army is also buried here in an unmarked grave.
Source
is51102023
Contributor
ch324
Language
English
Type
Site
Identifier
619
Date Submitted
15/04/2023
Extent
cm x cm x cm
Spatial Coverage
current,42.450433483159884,-71.23323798179628;
Europeana
Europeana Data Provider
Ye Olde Burying Ground
Object
https://www.lexingtonma.gov/177/The-Old-Burying-Ground
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Institutional nature
Place Name
Place
1965 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02421, United States
Status
public
Condition
1
Contact
ch324@st-andrews.ac.uk
Collection
Citation
“Ye Olde Burying Ground,” STAGE, accessed December 13, 2025, https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/1187.
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