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Hope Cemetery is an historic rural cemetery at 119 Webster Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Established in 1854, it was the city's sixth public cemetery, and is the burial site of remains originally interred at its first five cemeteries.
David Waldo donated rolling, treed land he purchased for $1400 in September 1837. It was located on the road leading to Holden from Worcester, which was previously owned by Judge Timothy Paine. The state legislature passed the bill and signed by Governor Edward Everett to incorporate the "Proprietors of Rural Cemetery in Worcester". A portion ...
A proposal to create a Muslim cemetery by the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester on 55 acres (22 ha) of farmland in Dudley, Massachusetts elicited intense community opposition when discussed at a public hearing in February 2016. [1] The Islamic Society sought to establish a closer burial place than Enfield, Connecticut. [2]
The Notre Dame des Canadiens was a landmark church which faced Salem Square and Worcester Common from 1929 to 2018. [5] In the 1920s, the Catholic Church purchased the Baptist Church on Salem Square and razed it in 1927 to build a new church to serve the city's French Catholic population, the cathedral-like Notre Dame des Canadiens. [5]
The Quaker Cemetery is a privately owned cemetery in Leicester, Massachusetts, established in 1740 and located at the site of the old meeting house of the Leicester Friends on Earle Street in the village of Manville. The cemetery is still in use and is now maintained by the Worcester Friends Meeting.
The Worcester Public Library (WPL) has launched a purr-fect solution for erasing those pesky fines. As part of their new program, people can bring cat photos to clear their outstanding balance on ...
The Fuller family is buried in one of several tomb mounds that dot the landscape. Use of the cemetery declined significantly after the large Newton Cemetery was established in 1855 (in the then-popular rural cemetery style), and its last recorded burial was in 1891. The cemetery was transferred from the parish to the city in the 1880s.
The cemetery remained in use until the late 18th century, when Middle Cemetery was opened. In 1937, the locally prominent Thayer family gave additional land to this cemetery at its eastern end, and it is there where a number of its deceased are interred. The last burial in this section was in 2006. The cemetery has since suffered from neglect. [2]