Smallpox Burial Ground
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Smallpox Burial Ground

Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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  • Get directions Edgell Road
    Framingham, Massachusetts 01702 United States
    Coordinates: 42.34684, -71.43726
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To find the cemetery, go to the Nobscot Boy Scout Reservation on Edgell Road right on the Framingham/Sudbury line, across the street from the Framingham Animal Hospital. Ask for a map at the office. The cemetery is over the Sudbury line, about a 10 minute hike away from the parking lot through the woods.

As a result of the smallpox epidemic of the early 1700s, several individuals died in the towns of Framingham and Sudbury. Both towns buried their victims as far away from the town center as possible because smallpox was highly contagious.

Those individuals who contracted the disease were quarantined in "pest houses." You can see the remnants of the cellar holes behind you. Those who died were buried here, a convenient place nearby. While formal grave markers were not used in the cemetery, perhaps as a means to forget about this tragic time in the town's history, we do know of one individual who is buried here, Mr. Buckley How, Jr., who died November 21, 1792. This area is now designated as How Pines.






To find the cemetery, go to the Nobscot Boy Scout Reservation on Edgell Road right on the Framingham/Sudbury line, across the street from the Framingham Animal Hospital. Ask for a map at the office. The cemetery is over the Sudbury line, about a 10 minute hike away from the parking lot through the woods.

As a result of the smallpox epidemic of the early 1700s, several individuals died in the towns of Framingham and Sudbury. Both towns buried their victims as far away from the town center as possible because smallpox was highly contagious.

Those individuals who contracted the disease were quarantined in "pest houses." You can see the remnants of the cellar holes behind you. Those who died were buried here, a convenient place nearby. While formal grave markers were not used in the cemetery, perhaps as a means to forget about this tragic time in the town's history, we do know of one individual who is buried here, Mr. Buckley How, Jr., who died November 21, 1792. This area is now designated as How Pines.






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