Cemetery Visit

The oldest burying ground in Duxbury, MA is the Myles Standish Burying Ground, established along with the town of Duxbury in 1637. It was the second burial ground in Plymouth Colony, the first being Burial Hill in Plymouth, MA. The earliest burials likely took place in 1638/9, and the last regular burials occurred in the early 1800s. Before the 1890s it was known simply as The Old Burial Ground. Memorial plaque placed by the American Cemetery Association in 1977 The Myles

The oldest gravestones are from the early 1700s and are of the text-only fieldstone variety. The newest are from the early 1900s. The cemetery has a nice variety of slate gravestones from many local gravestone carvers. There are many different styles represented, from winged skulls to urn and willow.

Mountain View Cemetery in Shrewsbury, MA