Chestnut Street Cemetery
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Chestnut Street Cemetery

Also known as Harmony Vale Cemetery

North Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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Harmony Vale was founded on land donated by William W. Whittredge Ir. (d. 1820) c. 1815 for use as a Baptist burial ground. Whittredge lived in the house across the street (97 Chestnut Street), the first of that family name to reside in North Reading. Bom in Gloucester, MA in 1760, he later married Miss Hannah Hint and removed to Chestnut Street. Land was needed for Baptist burials, as the Baptist movement became popular and a Baptist church was formed in North Reading. The Cemetery is no longer an exclusively Baptist burial ground. The Whittredge family member graves appear to be the oldest burials in the cemetery - the first recorded burial in the lot was Daniel Whittredge in 1800. Later other families were granted permission to be buried here, including the Parker, Nichols, Root, and Upton families. The majority of burials took place between 1829 and 1849.



The cemetery sits on about 41600 square feet. There are approximately 150 headstones. The earliest death date is 1800, the latest c. 1980s.



The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as NRE.801 Harmony Vale Cemetery.



This cemetery is referred to as GR4 Chestnut Street Cemetery, North Reading in the "Vital Records of Reading Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."





Harmony Vale was founded on land donated by William W. Whittredge Ir. (d. 1820) c. 1815 for use as a Baptist burial ground. Whittredge lived in the house across the street (97 Chestnut Street), the first of that family name to reside in North Reading. Bom in Gloucester, MA in 1760, he later married Miss Hannah Hint and removed to Chestnut Street. Land was needed for Baptist burials, as the Baptist movement became popular and a Baptist church was formed in North Reading. The Cemetery is no longer an exclusively Baptist burial ground. The Whittredge family member graves appear to be the oldest burials in the cemetery - the first recorded burial in the lot was Daniel Whittredge in 1800. Later other families were granted permission to be buried here, including the Parker, Nichols, Root, and Upton families. The majority of burials took place between 1829 and 1849.



The cemetery sits on about 41600 square feet. There are approximately 150 headstones. The earliest death date is 1800, the latest c. 1980s.



The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as NRE.801 Harmony Vale Cemetery.



This cemetery is referred to as GR4 Chestnut Street Cemetery, North Reading in the "Vital Records of Reading Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."





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