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The burial ground surrounds the Old Indian Meeting House, built in 1758 and regarded as the oldest Native American church building in the eastern United States. Founded in the late 18th century on the roughly seven-acre church grounds, it has served the Mashpee Wampanoag community for generations; the meeting house was a focal point of the 1833 Mashpee protest for self-governance led by William Apess. The site was listed on the National Register in 1998.
Old Indian Meeting House Burial Ground is a cemetery in Mashpee, 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 41.6250, -70.4792 near Mashpee. The nearest cataloged historic site is Indian Meetinghouse (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Building at 36 Meetinghouse Rd, Amos, Lysander Z. House, and Mashpee Baptist Church.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The burial ground at the Old Indian Meeting House in Mashpee surrounds the oldest Native American church in the eastern United States. The meeting house on Meetinghouse Road descends from Mashpee's first church of 1670 and a second meeting house of 1684; the present building was documented on the site by 1758 and served the Wampanoag people as a Christian church and school. A cemetery was established on the church grounds in the late 18th century. The site, of deep historic and spiritual significance to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and connected to the 1833 Mashpee Revolt led by William Apess, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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