North Cemetery
Also known as North Wayland Cemetery , Old North Cemetery
Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Wayland, Massachusetts 01778 United StatesCoordinates: 42.37080, -71.36940 - www.wayland.ma.us/cemeteries
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The North Cemetery is located on the site of the First town center. Wayland was part of Sudbury until 1780 at which time it because separately incorporated as East Sudbury. However, back in the seventeenth century when Wayland and Sudbury were one, the first meeting house was built in 1643 at this site.
From the time that this site was chosen for the meetinghouse in 1639 the site also became the towns first burying ground, serving as the final resting place of Sudbury settlers from this same period. Once the meetinghouse was moved in 1725 to the center of the east precinct of Sudbury, this site continued as a burial ground. Until the twentieth century the North Cemetery continued to be referred to as the "Old Burying-ground" according to Alfred Hudson's account of the History of Sudbury. Wayland's South Cemetery was established south of the new meetinghouse location on today's Cochituate Road in 1835 and until well into the twentieth century was referred to as the Centre Cemetery. The Cemetery at Sudbury Center was not laid out until ca. 1716, so for nearly 75 years this North Cemetery was the main burial ground for east and west precinct residents.
The cemetery sits on 8.26 acres. The earliest death date is ca. 1640s.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as WAY.800 North Cemetery.
This cemetery is referred to as GR1 North Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Wayland Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."
The North Cemetery is located on the site of the First town center. Wayland was part of Sudbury until 1780 at which time it because separately incorporated as East Sudbury. However, back in the seventeenth century when Wayland and Sudbury were one, the first meeting house was built in 1643 at this site.
From the time that this site was chosen for the meetinghouse in 1639 the site also became the towns first burying ground, serving as the final resting place of Sudbury settlers from this same period. Once the meetinghouse was moved in 1725 to the center of the east precinct of Sudbury, this site continued as a burial ground. Until the twentieth century the North Cemetery continued to be referred to as the "Old Burying-ground" according to Alfred Hudson's account of the History of Sudbury. Wayland's South Cemetery was established south of the new meetinghouse location on today's Cochituate Road in 1835 and until well into the twentieth century was referred to as the Centre Cemetery. The Cemetery at Sudbury Center was not laid out until ca. 1716, so for nearly 75 years this North Cemetery was the main burial ground for east and west precinct residents.
The cemetery sits on 8.26 acres. The earliest death date is ca. 1640s.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as WAY.800 North Cemetery.
This cemetery is referred to as GR1 North Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Wayland Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 91308
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