MassachusettsPine Grove Cemetery is a roughly 2.15-acre burying ground in South Truro, established by 1799 beside the town's first Methodist meetinghouse (built 1794, no longer standing). Though now remote from the community, it retains a formal design with linear plots, a bisecting driveway, a granite-post-and-iron-rail boundary fence, and a semi-subterranean brick receiving tomb, and holds about 800 monuments of slate, marble, granite, and a few bronze. The markers range from early slate urn-and-willow, winged-skull, and winged-cherub stones to Victorian marble motifs and later granite die-on-base monuments, representing the work of identified carvers including William Bennett, Samuel White Jr., the Geyer family, Ebenezer Winslow, Nathaniel Holmes, Alpheus Cary, and Thomas A. Hopkins. Listed under Criteria A and C with Criteria Consideration D for a period of 1799-1963, it is significant for its association with the rise of Methodism on Cape Cod, its burials from Truro's oldest families and 47 veterans, and its array of gravestones reflecting the evolution from churchyard to Rural Cemetery and Lawn Park traditions.
Pine Grove Cemetery (Truro)
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Pine Grove Cemetery is a cemetery in Truro, 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 41.9760, -70.0593 near Truro. The nearest cataloged historic site is Corey, Manuel House - Edgewood Farm (landmark), about 1.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Cobb Memorial Library, Cobb Memorial Library Clock and Chimes Monument, and Ahearn House - Curran, David House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Pine Grove Cemetery in Truro, Massachusetts, is the town's second-oldest cemetery, established in 1799 by Truro's Methodists near a since-vanished church, in a remote area now within the Cape Cod National Seashore. It is enclosed by a fence of granite posts joined with iron rails, and burials there date from 1799 into the modern era. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
“Pine Grove Cemetery” names 2 distinct records in Barnstable County. This page is the cemetery in Truro. The others:
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