Seamen’s Cemetery - Chatham, MA
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N 41° 40.324 W 069° 56.945
19T E 420996 N 4613802
The Seamen’s Cemetery is located next to the grounds of Coast Guard Station at the Chatham Lighthouse, Chatham, MA.
Waymark Code: WMMQKT
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 10/26/2014
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This simple cemetery is surround by a tall hedge with a single entrance. There is one unmarked headstone and a memorial plaque attached to a stone in the center of the cemetery. The plaque reads:
Sailors Memorial
Here lie the remains
of the unknown sailors
who lost their lives
in the shipwrecks off
the coast of Chatham
There is an unknown number of sailors interned here.