Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank

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Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank
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Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank is located in Massachusetts
Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank
Location Malden, Massachusetts
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Area 3.3 acres (1.3 ha)
Built 1649
Architect Joseph Lamson; James Foster
NRHP Reference # 81000108 [1]
Added to NRHP August 27, 1981

Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank (also known as Bell Rock Cemetery) is a historic cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts. It occupies a roughly rectangular parcel of land 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) in size, bounded by Medford and Green Streets, Converse Avenue, and the Malden River on the west. It is the oldest cemetery in the city, established in 1649. Its earliest probable burial dates to that same year, although the oldest gravestone, that of Alice Brackenburg, bears the date 1670.[2]

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[1]

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