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Bennington Street Burying Ground

Historic cemetery in East Boston, Massachusetts

Field	Value
name	Bennington Street Burying Ground
image	Bennington Street Burying Ground East Boston MA 02.jpg
caption	View of the cemetery in 2009.
location	East Boston, Massachusetts
built	1838
coordinates
district_map
added	May 22, 2002
area	3.6 acre
refnum	02000548

The Bennington Street Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Bennington Street, between Swift St. and Harmony St., in East Boston, Massachusetts.

The cemetery was established in 1838, in a late version of the traditional rectilinear colonial cemetery, rather than the rural cemetery style that was then just beginning to come into vogue. The cemetery has more than 300 graves, the oldest dating to 1819 (probably a reburial from another location). The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

The professional baseball player Red Woodhead was interred at the cemetery in 1881.

References

{{NRISref. 2009a
Lambert, David Allen. (2002). "A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries". New England Historic Genealogical Society.
"NRHP nomination for Bennington Street Burying Ground". Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
. ["Red Woodhead Statistics and History"](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/woodhre01.shtml). *Baseball Reference*.

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