Hillside Cemetery in Westford, Massachusetts

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Get directions Depot Street and Nutting Road
Westford, Massachusetts 01886 United States

Coordinates: 42.60743, -71.44448
www.westfordma.gov/1055/Cemetery-Department
(978) 692-5526
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Westford acquired this 0.939-acre parcel from farmers Ebenezer and Thomas Wright in 1753. Originally known as North Burying Ground, it was later called Nutting Cemetery and renamed Hillside in 1903. The cemetery was listed with the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

The most famous person buried here is a hero of the Revolutionary War, Captain Oliver Bates (1721-1775). Other Revolutionary War veterans include William Chandler (1755-1826), who served in Concord and Boston. Roswell Reed and Imla Keyes fought in the War of 1812.

Westford's second public cemetery has many styles of monuments from the Colonial, Federal, and Victorian eras, ranging from flat slate to granite obelisks. The somewhat elevated cemetery is bordered by granite slab and fieldstone walls, mined from Westford quarries. Please contact the Cemetery Department with questions or concerns.