Neck of Land Cemetery

The Neck of Land Cemetery is a small historic cemetery on Summer Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Established in 1687 near the confluence of the Mill and Taunton Rivers, it was the city's first cemetery. Most of its graves predate 1800; there are four burials before 1700, including two children. The cemetery is a roughly rectangular plot, about 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) in size, on the south side of Summer Street, between Prospect and West Summer Streets.[2] The most significant individual buried in the cemetery is Taunton founder and first female land claimer Elizabeth Poole.

Neck of Land Cemetery
LocationTaunton, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°53′52″N 71°5′9″W
Built1687
MPSTaunton MRA
NRHP reference No.85001530 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1985

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Neck of Land Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
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