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Cohasset Central Cemetery

1705 establishments in MassachusettsCemeteries established in the 18th centuryCemeteries in Norfolk County, MassachusettsCemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in MassachusettsCohasset, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Cohasset Central Cemetery;2009 08 21
Cohasset Central Cemetery;2009 08 21

Cohasset Central Cemetery is a historic cemetery on North Main Street and Joy Place in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The first burial was that of Margaret Tower in 1705. However, the gravestone's design suggests it was carved in the 1740s, along with that of her husband, Cohasset's first settler, Ibrook Tower. The oldest gravestone is believed to be that of Sarah Pratt (d. 1706). Other notable graves include that of Levi B. Gaylord (1840–1900), the town's only recipient of the Medal of Honor, Civil War general Zealous Bates Tower (1819–1900), and the Celtic Cross erected in 1914 on the gravesite of about 45 of 99 Irish immigrants lost in an 1849 shipwreck off Cohasset.The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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Cohasset Central Cemetery

Joy Place 25
02025
Massachusetts, United States
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cohassetcentralcemetery.com

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Cohasset Central Cemetery;2009 08 21
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