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The Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery are a pair of connected cemeteries at 149 Dartmouth Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts United States. They occupy an irregular parcel of land more than 90 acres (36 ha) in size on the west side of the city.
The older portion of the cemetery, that south of Parker Street, was established in 1843, while the northern section was acquired and developed between 1870 and 1896. Most of the cemetery is laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style of winding lanes, although the northernmost section has a more open layout, made partly due to ...
Rural Cemetery: 1837: New Bedford, Massachusetts: Monument Cemetery: 1837: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The cemetery was condemned in 1956. The land was purchased by Temple University and bodies reinterred to Lawnview Memorial Park. [2] Mount Hope Cemetery: 1838: Rochester, New York: Green-Wood Cemetery: 1838: Brooklyn, New York: Green Mount ...
The plot of the cemetery is about 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) in size, and roughly follows the rectilinear grid of the city streets. It was established in 1804, not far from a Quaker cemetery whose remains were later reinterred in the city's Rural Cemetery. The cemetery has about 230 grave stones, but a significant number of graves are unmarked.
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The Jewish Cemetery of New Bedford, Massachusetts is located in the far north of the city, on Old Plainville Road, just north of New Bedford Regional Airport. The cemetery was established in 1898 as the principal burying ground for two congregations, Chesed Shel Emes and Ahavath Achim. It is the second Jewish cemetery in the city; the first, a ...