Old Burying Ground
Also known as Clay Pit Cemetery
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 United StatesCoordinates: 42.64256, -71.35853 - Cemetery ID:
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The cemetery is about 12665 sq. feet. The earliest death date is 1715 the latest 1868.
In 1904 P. Hildreth Parker went around to all the local cemeteries and recorded the epitaphs from the headstones. At that time 17 headstones were recorded at this site.
In 2007 there were approximately 10 headstones remaining in tact and several remnants of other stones remain but due to their condition it is impossible to tell whose they were.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as LOW.809 Claypit Cemetery - Old Burial Ground and Pierce - Coburn Family Burial Ground.
This cemetery is referred to as GR1 Old Ground, Varnum Avenue in the "Vital Records of Dracut, Massachusetts to the year 1850".
The cemetery is about 12665 sq. feet. The earliest death date is 1715 the latest 1868.
In 1904 P. Hildreth Parker went around to all the local cemeteries and recorded the epitaphs from the headstones. At that time 17 headstones were recorded at this site.
In 2007 there were approximately 10 headstones remaining in tact and several remnants of other stones remain but due to their condition it is impossible to tell whose they were.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as LOW.809 Claypit Cemetery - Old Burial Ground and Pierce - Coburn Family Burial Ground.
This cemetery is referred to as GR1 Old Ground, Varnum Avenue in the "Vital Records of Dracut, Massachusetts to the year 1850".
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- Added: 3 Jul 2007
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2222807
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