Grove Street Cemetery - New Haven, CT
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Grove Street Cemetery is an historic cemetery surrounded by the campus of Yale University at 227 Grove Street, New Haven, CT.
Waymark Code: WM10XDZ
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 07/06/2019
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Grove Street Cemetery was organized in 1796 and incorporated in October 1797. It is the first private nonprofit cemetery in the world. It replaced the overcrowded burial ground on the New Haven Green and the headstones have been moved to Grove Street Cemetery.
It features an impressive brownstone Egyptian Revival gateway entrance which was designed by New Haven architects Henry Austin and Hezekiah Augur and completed in 1845. The cemetery has grid pattern of streets and avenues and is home to the graves of many famous Americans, many of which have a relationship to Yale University.
Among notable burials are:
Lyman Beecher - Preacher and abolitionist
Walter Camp - Father of American Football
A. Bartlett Giamatti - Commissioner of Baseball and Yale President
Josiah Willard Gibbs - Father of thermodynamics
Charles Goodyear - Inventor
David Humphreys - Poet and Aide de Camp to General Washington
Lars Onsager - Nobel Prize winning physical chemist
Roger Sherman - Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Noah Webster - Lexicographer
Eli Whitney - inventor
Street address:
227 Grove Street
New Haven, CT United States
County / Borough / Parish: New Haven
Year listed: 1997
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event
Periods of significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Historic function: Funerary
Current function: Funerary
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 2: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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