Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Connecticut
PublisherPublished by the
Ancient Burying Ground Association
(American, founded 1985)
Date1994
MediumLithograph; black printer's ink on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 22 x 19 3/4in. (55.9 x 50.2cm)
Sheet (height x width): 25 1/2 x 22in. (64.8 x 55.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number2012.312.162
DescriptionMap of the Ancient Burying Ground in Hartford, Connecticut, bordered to the east by Center Church and the south by Gold Street. It shows the fourteen subdivisions and the locations of each grave and memorial within them. Each marker or memorial is numbered, and each number corresponds to the alphabetical list on the back that contains the name of the person buried and their map location.
Label TextThe Ancient Burying Ground is the oldest cemetery and the oldest historic site in Hartford, Connecticut, the only one to survive from the seventeenth century. From 1640 until the early nineteenthy century, almost everyone who died in Hartford was buried there. Many never had grave markers. Of 563 headstones recorded in 1835, approximately 415 survived into the late twentieth century. The Ancient Burying Ground Association was founded in 1985 to preserve and restore these stones. This map, which the Association published in 1994, is both a record of the Ancient Burying Ground as it existed at that time, and a resource for genealogists and family historians.
NotesCartographic Note: No scaleStatus
Not on view
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