Grove Hill Cemetery
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Grove Hill Cemetery

Also known as Old Burial Ground , Waltham Cemetery

Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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Grove Hill Cemetery is the oldest place of interment within Walthams city limits. Since this burial grounds first interments in 1703, it has grown from 2.3 acres to its present 9 acres. This cemetery is the last resting place for many of Walthams leading 18th and 19th century families. It contains the full range of gravestones and memorials from simple early 18th century markers to Egyptian Revival obelisks and Victorian vaults.



The earliest graves are said to have been those of Samuel Harrington who died Nov. 11, 1703, age 33 and Susanna, wife of John Hastings, who died Nov. 15, 1703, age 21. The northwest corner of the burial ground contains some of the oldest stones and contains an unmarked area of black interments. According to a newspaper article in the Waltham Sentinel (4/18/1856) "there are no head stones to be found and few records of the race left." Near the center of the cemetery, near the (northern?) base of the hill was Potters Field, "where strangers were buried"—and presumably indigent Waltham citizens. This cemetery was called the Old Burying Ground until it was renamed Grove Hill in the late 19th century. This was the only burial ground within Waltham's city limits until Mt. Feake was set out in 1857.



The cemetery sits on about 9 acres. There are approximately 3500 headstones, with he earliest death date being 1703.



The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as WLT.800 Grove Hill Cemetery.





Grove Hill Cemetery is the oldest place of interment within Walthams city limits. Since this burial grounds first interments in 1703, it has grown from 2.3 acres to its present 9 acres. This cemetery is the last resting place for many of Walthams leading 18th and 19th century families. It contains the full range of gravestones and memorials from simple early 18th century markers to Egyptian Revival obelisks and Victorian vaults.



The earliest graves are said to have been those of Samuel Harrington who died Nov. 11, 1703, age 33 and Susanna, wife of John Hastings, who died Nov. 15, 1703, age 21. The northwest corner of the burial ground contains some of the oldest stones and contains an unmarked area of black interments. According to a newspaper article in the Waltham Sentinel (4/18/1856) "there are no head stones to be found and few records of the race left." Near the center of the cemetery, near the (northern?) base of the hill was Potters Field, "where strangers were buried"—and presumably indigent Waltham citizens. This cemetery was called the Old Burying Ground until it was renamed Grove Hill in the late 19th century. This was the only burial ground within Waltham's city limits until Mt. Feake was set out in 1857.



The cemetery sits on about 9 acres. There are approximately 3500 headstones, with he earliest death date being 1703.



The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as WLT.800 Grove Hill Cemetery.





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