North Burial Ground, 48 State Tour, 2020
The North Burial Ground opened its gates in 1700 and is the largest municipal cemetery in the region at around 110 acres and with more than 40,000 gravestones. The cemetery is owned and operated by the Parks Department and contains an eclectic collection of funerary sculptures ranging from simple slate markers to elaborate mausoleum structures.
The North Burial Ground is rich in local history with many notable Rhode Island governors, mayors, Civil War and Revolutionary War leaders and some of Providence’s most prominent citizens buried there. John & Nicholas Brown, Steven Hopkins, Horace Mann, Nicholas Cooke, Gregory & Ebenezer Dexter and Samuel Bridgham are just a few of the graves of interest. Canonicus, the Narragansett Sachem, who sold Roger Williams the land that is now Providence, was also memorialized at the North Burial Ground.
City of Providence North Burial Ground Website Page
For more specific questions or concerns regarding the event at North Burial Ground please contact northburialground@providenceri.gov.
North Burial Ground, 48 State Tour, 2020