Porter's Burial Ground, Danvers, Massachusetts

Date: 1758 to 1942
Location: Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries Essex County, Massachusetts

 

Porter's Burial Ground, Danvers, Massachusetts

Porter's Burial Ground, Danvers, Massachusetts

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CEMETERY NAME:   Porter's Burial Ground

ADDRESS:    High Street, Danvers, Massachusetts, 01923

GPS COORDINATES:   42.56380, -70.93455

Originally known as Porter's Burial Ground, this land has been a cemetery since the mid-18th century. Veterans of the French & Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War and Spanish-American War are among those interred here. Two captains who commanded at the Lexington Alarm of 1775, Jeremiah Page and Edmund Putnam, and one man wounded in that battle, Nathan Putnam, rest here. The 1902 three-inch field gun was dedicated in 1938 as a memorial to Danver's Spanish-American War veterans Town of Danvers - formerly Salem Village - Scene of the Witchcraft Delusion of 1692

This cemetery is known as GR8 High Street Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Danvers Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Volume II, Marriages and Deaths"

Completely photographed 2014.  208 Memorials  |  Date Range: 1758-1942

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