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The Chester Burying Ground lies within the Chester Center Historic District, the town's original civic center laid out by its first settlers around 1763. Its earliest burial dates to 1769, the same year the Rev. Aaron Bascomb settled as the town's first minister. The district, which also includes an 1840 Congregational church and one of the state's oldest schoolhouses, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Chester Center Cemetery is a cemetery in Chester, Hampden County. It is one of 14 cemeteries documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 42.2906, -72.9239 near Chester. The nearest cataloged historic site is Chester Burial Ground Road Wall (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Chester Center School House, Chester First Congregational Church, and Searles House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Chester Center Cemetery on Skyline Trail in Chester was established about 1769 and is a contributing property in a National Register historic district at the town's historic hilltop center. It served the original center settlement of Chester in the Hampden County hills and holds the graves of its colonial founding families. The burying ground is a characteristic rural New England graveyard of the pre-Revolutionary era.
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