Old Burying Ground

The Old Burying Ground, also known as Walnut Street Cemetery, was the first cemetery established in , in 1717. It was the town's only cemetery for 140 years until the establishment of the in 1857, and the in 1875.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Brookline Cemetery”, “Old Burying Ground (Brookline, Massachusetts)”, and “Walnut Street Cemetery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Brookline Town Green Historic District and Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.

Park
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The encompasses the historic colonial heart of the town of . Centered on a stretch of Walnut Street between Warren and Chestnut Streets, this area is where the town's first colonial meeting house and cemetery were laid out, and was its center of civic life until the early 19th century.

Park
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is a United States National Historic Site located in , a suburb of . Frederick Law Olmsted is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker of the 19th century.

Railway stop
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is a light rail stop on the Green Line D branch of the MBTA subway system, located in the Brookline Hills neighborhood of . is situated 1,500 feet north of Old Burying Ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookline and Coolidge Corner.

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is a primarily residential, although fairly high density, suburb of . It has several interesting neighborhoods to visit, and two National Historic Sites.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of , United States, centered on the intersection of Beacon Street and Harvard Street. The neighborhood takes its name from the Coolidge & Brother general store that opened in 1857 at that intersection at the site of today's S.S.

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Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill are two distinct neighborhoods within the City of . They are grouped together here due to their shared border and transit options.

Old Burying Ground

Latitude
42.32731° or 42° 19′ 38″ north
Longitude
-71.12782° or 71° 7′ 40″ west
Open location code
87JC8VGC+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29837057
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Wiki­data ID
Q22073863
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