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Also called the Old Burying Ground or First Burying Ground, this cemetery sits on land Falmouth's first proprietors set aside as the original village center, with graves dating back to about 1705. It holds more than 700 stones bearing the names of the town's founding families such as Hatch, Nye, Bourne and Swift, and adjoins ground where poet Katharine Lee Bates played as a child.
Old Town Cemetery is a cemetery in Falmouth, 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 41.5498, -70.6243 near Falmouth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hatch, Elihu House (landmark), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Dwight, John E. House, Dwight, John E. Barn, and Studley, Henry and Lydia Fish - McDermott, Charles and Florence Bowman House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Old Town Cemetery on Mill Road is Falmouth's original burying ground, dating to the early 18th century (about 1705), and a contributing property in a National Register historic district. It holds the graves of the town's founding families and sea captains, marked by the slate death's-heads and later urn-and-willow stones typical of colonial and early-national Cape Cod.
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