Grove Street Cemetery

Coordinates: 41°18′49″N 72°55′39″W / 41.31361°N 72.92750°W / 41.31361; -72.92750
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Grove Street Cemetery
The Egyptian Revival entrance gate
Grove Street Cemetery is located in Connecticut
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is located in the United States
Grove Street Cemetery
Location200 Grove St., New Haven, Connecticut
Coordinates41°18′49″N 72°55′39″W / 41.31361°N 72.92750°W / 41.31361; -72.92750
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
Built1796
ArchitectHezekiah Augur; Henry Austin
Architectural styleEgyptian Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.97000830
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 8, 1997[1]
Designated NHLDFebruary 16, 2000[2]

Grove Street Cemetery or Grove Street Burial Ground is a cemetery in

Yale presidents; nevertheless, it was not restricted to members of the upper class, and was open to all.[3]

In 2000, Grove Street Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark.[4]

Today, it is managed by Camco Cemetery Management.

History

Establishment (1796)

For the first 160 years of permanent settlement, New Haven residents buried their dead on the

U.S. Senator, to invite other prominent families in the town to establish a dedicated burial ground on farmland bordering the town.[5] In 1796, thirty-two families purchased a tract just north of Grove Street, the tract was enclosed by a wooden fence, which was prone to rotting and needed to be replaced frequently. At first consisting of 6 acres (0.024 km2), the cemetery was quickly subscribed and thereafter expanded to nearly 18 acres (0.073 km2).[citation needed
]

In 1821, the monuments on the green were removed to the Grove Street Cemetery.[6]

Gateway and fence construction (1845–49)

Completed in 1845, the entrance on Grove Street is a brownstone

1 Corinthians 15.52: "For the trumpet will sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed." Supposedly, Yale President Arthur Twining Hadley said of the inscription, "They certainly will be, if Yale needs the property."[8]

In 1848–49, the perimeter of the cemetery was surrounded on three sides by an 8-foot (2.4 m) stone wall.

Historic landmark

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1] It was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Secretary of the Interior in 2000, citing its history and the architectural significance of its gateway.[2][1][4]

Conflict over perimeter fence

In 2008, Yale announced plans to construct two new

Robert A.M. Stern.[10]

Notable burials and memorials

Family plots from 1848 to 1850
  • James Rowland Angell (1869–1949), President of Yale University
  • Kanichi Asakawa
    (1873–1948), historian.
  • Jehudi Ashmun (1794–1828), religious leader, and social reformer, agent of the African Colonization Society
  • Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), wood carver, sculptor and inventor.
  • Henry Austin (1804–1891), architect, designed the gate of the cemetery, Yale's College Library (which became Dwight Hall), and several mansions on Hillhouse Avenue.
  • Alice Mabel Bacon (1858–1918), women educator (niece of Delia Bacon)
  • Delia Bacon (1811–1859), originator of the proposition that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare
  • Leonard Bacon (1802–1881), clergyman and abolitionist (father of Alice Mabel Bacon and brother of Delia Bacon)
  • Charles Montague Bakewell (1867–1957), politician
  • Governor of Connecticut
  • Simeon Baldwin (1761–1851), Mayor of New Haven
  • Governor of Connecticut
  • Ida Barney (1886–1982) noted female American astronomer
  • Ebenezer Bassett (1833–1908), African-American educator and diplomat; US Ambassador to Haiti
  • John Bassett (1652–1714), captain of the trainband; deputy to the General Court (legislature) of Connecticut Colony
  • Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), abolitionist, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher
  • Nathan Beers (1763–1861), paymaster to Connecticut troops in the American Revolution
  • Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), Hawaiian missionary and clergyman.
  • James Bishop (d. 1691), Secretary, Lieutenant Governor and Deputy Governor of New Haven Jurisdiction.
  • Eli Whitney Blake (1795–1886), manufacturer and inventor of the stone crusher. His brother, Philos, invented the corkscrew.
  • William Whiting Boardman
    (1794–1871), politician.
  • Edward Gaylord Bourne (1860–1908), historian and educator. Leader in the American Historical Association.
  • Phineas Bradley (1745–1797), soldier. Captain, commander of the artillery defending New Haven, July 5, 1779
  • Yale Forestry School
    ; co-founder, with Samuel William Johnson, also buried here, of the first U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station.
Gravemarker of E. H. Trowbridge and Grace Allen Quincy Trowbridge
Monument to Glenn Miller, who formed the 418th Army Air Forces Band at Yale, and made New Haven his headquarters for concerts, parades and his radio show.
South side of Eli Whitney monument
  • James Kingsley (1778–1852), professor of Hebrew, Greek and Ecclesiastical History at Yale.
  • John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959), chemist.
  • Charlton Miner Lewis (1866–1923), Yale professor and author.
  • Elias Loomis (1811–1889), mathematician and astronomer.
  • Daniel Lyman (1718–1788), Surveyor, Deputy to the General Court, Court Referee, Justice of the Peace and caretaker of the State's public records.
  • Samuel Mansfield (1717–1775), first sheriff of New Haven
  • Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), paleontologist.
  • Henry Czar Merwin (1839–1863 †), Civil War Union Army Officer killed at the Battle of Gettysburg
  • trombonist
    .
  • Dr. Timothy Mix (1711–1779), Colonial soldier who died on a British prison ship.
  • art historian
  • Samuel F. B. Morse
    .
  • Theodore T. Munger (1830–1910), clergyman.
North side of Eli Whitney monument
  • Hubert Anson Newton
    (1830–1896), meteorologist and mathematician.
  • George Henry Nettleton (1874–1959), author.
  • Denison Olmsted (1791–1859), Professor of Medicine and Natural Philosophy at Yale. One of the first to see Halley's Comet in 1835.
  • Lars Onsager (1903-1976), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, a legendary theoretical chemist, distinguished professor of chemistry at Yale.
  • Norman Holmes Pearson (1909–1975), Yale American Studies professor and World War II spy.
  • Samuel Peck (1813–1879), 19th-century photographer, artist, businessperson, photo case manufacturer, and gallery owner.
  • Jaroslav Pelikan (1923–2006), Scholar in the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history.
  • Timothy Pitkin (1766–1847), politician, United States Representative from Connecticut.
  • Noah Porter (1811–1892), clergyman, President of Yale College
  • Joel Root (1770–1847), traveller, author.
  • Charles Seymour (1885–1963), President of Yale University
  • George Dudley Seymour (1859–1945), Attorney, antiquarian, historian, author, and city planner
  • Joseph Earl Sheffield (1793–1882), merchant, founder of Sheffield Scientific School.
  • United States Constitution. Today his grave is the center of this colonial city's Independence Day
    festivities.
  • Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), pioneer in scientific education.
  • Benjamin Silliman Jr. (1816–1885), Yale chemist and geologist. First suggested some practical uses for petroleum.
  • Aaron Skinner (1800–1858), civic figure and supervisor of improvements to Grove Street Cemetery
  • Nathan Smith
    (1770–1835), United States Senator from Connecticut.
  • Ezra Stiles (1727–1795), President of Yale University.
  • Henry Randolph Storrs
    (1787–1837), jurist.
  • Titus Street (1786–1842), businessman and civic figure
Grave of Noah Webster
  • Alfred Howe Terry
    (1827–1890), Civil War Union Army Major General.
  • Ithiel Town (1784–1844), architect and civil engineer. Inventor of the lattice truss bridge.
  • Martha Townsend (1753–1797), first interment in Grove Street Cemetery
  • William Kneeland Townsend (1849–1907), jurist
  • Henry H. Townshend (1874–1953), proprietor and historian of Grove Street Cemetery.
  • Timothy Trowbridge (1631–1734), merchant, soldier and politician.
  • Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill
    (1799–1879), children's book author
  • Alexander C. Twining
    (1801–1884), inventor of first practical artificial ice system.
  • Decius Wadsworth (1768–1821), Army Engineer, Chief of Ordnance (US Army).
  • Noah Webster (1758–1843), lexicographer, dictionary publisher.
  • Nathan Whiting, soldier, Colonel in the Seven Years' War.
  • Eli Whitney (1765–1825), inventor of the cotton gin.
  • Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861), Major, United States Army. First New Haven victim of the Civil War.
  • Melancthon Taylor Woolsey (1717–1758), colonel in the Colonial Army.
  • Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1812–1889), abolitionist, President of Yale.
  • David Wooster (1711–1777 †), Buried in Danbury, Connecticut but memorialized at Grove Street Cemetery.[11] Major General, 7th in rank below Washington.
  • Mary Clabaugh Wright (1917–1970), educator and historian, first woman to become a full professor at Yale.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Grove Street Cemetery". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
  3. ^ a b "Grant, Steve (December 26, 2008). "History Disinterred". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on May 11, 2015. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Bruce Clouette (September 29, 1999), National Register of Historic Landmark Nomination: Grove Street Cemetery / New Haven City Burial Ground (pdf), National Park Service and Accompanying 32 photos, from 1997 and undated (32 KB)
  5. ^ a b Pinnell, Patrick (1999). The Campus Guide: Yale University. Princeton University Press. pp. 108–09.
  6. ^ Blake, Henry Taylor, Chronicles of New Haven Green from 1638 to 1862: A Series of Papers Read Before the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1898, p. 28
  7. ISBN 9781621900771
    . Retrieved May 10, 2015.
  8. ^ Taylor, Frances Grandy (September 23, 2000). "Grove Street Cemetery At Yale Becomes U.S. Landmark Today". Hartford Courant. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  9. ^ Appell, Alan (October 7, 2009). "Plot-holders Slam Cemetery Plan". New Haven Independent. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  10. ^ Appell, Alan (October 13, 2009). "Cemetery Wall To Remain Undisturbed". New Haven Independent. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  11. ^ The Grove Street Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 4, 2005

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