Cemetery

Brewster Cemetery - Lower Road Cemetery

Brewster · Barnstable County

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The Story

A contributing property in the Brewster Old King's Highway Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

About this site

Brewster Cemetery - Lower Road Cemetery is a cemetery in Brewster, Barnstable County. It is one of 67 cemeteries documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 41.7613, -70.0970 near Brewster. The nearest cataloged historic site is House at 1 Center St (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Lincoln, Capt. Nathaniel House, Baker, Capt. Franklin and Sophia Crosby House, and Higgins, Capt. Jacob and Mercy House.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Brewster Cemetery, also known as the Lower Road Cemetery, was laid out in 1840 on Lower Road in this Cape Cod town and served as one of Brewster's principal 19th-century burying grounds during its heyday as a home port for sea captains. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district, and its rows of granite and marble monuments reflect the mid-1800s taste for the fenced family lot rather than the older colonial slate. The setting preserves the character of a Cape village cemetery of the period.

📍 41.7613, -70.0970 · Brewster, Barnstable County

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