Cemetery

Pauper's Cemetery - South Street Cemetery

Barnstable · Barnstable County

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About this site

Pauper's Cemetery - South Street Cemetery is a cemetery in Barnstable, 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 41.6477, -70.2921 near Barnstable. The nearest cataloged historic site is Bacon House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Bacon, Ira House, Baker House, and Bacon House.

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

History

The Pauper's Cemetery, also called the South Street Cemetery, in Barnstable was established in 1737 as a burying ground for the town's poor. Like other town poor-farm and potter's-field burial grounds of colonial New England, its graves were often unmarked or marked only with fieldstones, and it stands as a reminder of how early towns provided for their indigent dead. It lies within a local historic district on South Street.

📍 41.6477, -70.2921 · Barnstable, Barnstable County

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