Swan Point Cemetery
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Swan Point Cemetery is a cemetery located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Established in 1846 on a 60 acre (0.24 km²) plot of land, it has approximately 40,000 interments.[1][2]
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Swan Point Cemetery
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Entrance sign for Swan Point Cemetery
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| Location | Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Built | 1846 |
| Architect | Multiple |
| NRHP Reference # | 77000007 [3] |
| Added to NRHP | October 5, 1977 |
File:RI Governor Elisha Dyer Jr grave Swan Point Cemetery.jpg
Grave of Rhode Island Governor Elisha Dyer, Jr.
History
First organized under the Swan Point Cemetery Company, with a board of trustees. In 1858, a new charter was developed to make the cemetery administration non-profit, and it was taken over by a group known as the Proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery. In 1886, landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland was hired to redesign the area. It is a cemetery park with it design inspired by the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Among the first to make use of a tract of land within the cemetery was the First Congregational Society (now First Unitarian Society). They moved several interments from older plots in Providence to Swan Point. Over the years additional land acquisition has expanded the cemetery to 200 acres (0.81 km2), and is still open to new interments today.
The Swan Point Cemetery is widely considered to be the most prestigious cemetery in Rhode Island due to the number of prominent citizens of the state buried there. There are more governors, senators and congressmen buried there than any other cemetery in Rhode Island.
Swan Point Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is one of the two largest cemeteries in Providence with the other one being the North Burial Ground.
File:Lovecraft tombstone.jpg
Gravestone of H. P. Lovecraft
Notable interments
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Swan Point has the burials of many notable Rhode Island figures:
- David Aldrich, American artist[4]
- Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, grandfather of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller[5]
- Richard Steere Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, son of Nelson W. Aldrich[6]
- Henry B. Anthony, Governor of Rhode Island, and President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate[7]
- Lemuel H. Arnold, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Rhode Island[8]
- Richard Arnold, Union army general[citation needed]
- Sullivan Ballou, state politician, Civil War officer killed in action at the Battle of Bull Run[9]
- David Leonard Barnes, U.S. District judge, litigant in West v. Barnes[citation needed]
- Charles R. Brayton, Civil War officer, Postmaster of Providence and long time Republican political boss[4]
- Ambrose Burnside, Major General in the Civil War, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator[4]
- Adin Ballou Capron, U.S. Congressman[10]
- Malcolm Greene Chace (1875–1955), amateur tennis player[11]
- Malcolm Greene Chace, Jr., (1904–1996) chairman of Berkshire Hathaway during the 1960s[11]
- Malcolm Greene Chace III (1934–2011), board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway 1992-2007[11]
- George Henry Corliss, inventor of the Corliss steam engine[4]
- Thomas Davis, U.S. Congressman[12]
- Thomas Wilson Dorr, Political reformer, revolutionary and Governor of Rhode Island [4]
- Sarah Elizabeth Doyle, Educator and reformer.[13]
- Thomas Arthur Doyle, long-serving mayor of Providence[14]
- Elisha Dyer, Governor of Rhode Island[15]
- Elisha Dyer Jr., Governor of Rhode Island, Mayor of Providence[16]
- Benjamin Tucker Eames, U.S. Congressman[17]
- C. M. Eddy, Jr., author[4]
- Theodore Foster, U.S. Senator[18]
- Albert Gallup, U.S. Congressman[19]
- Lucius F. C. Garvin, Governor of Rhode Island[16]
- Darius Goff, Pawtucket businessman and textile mill owner.[20]
- Daniel L. D. Granger, U.S. Congressman[17]
- Theodore F. Green, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator [16]
- William S. Hayward, Mayor of Providence[21]
- Robert Henri, American painter and teacher[citation needed]
- William Warner Hoppin, Governor of Rhode Island[15]
- Charles Tillinghast James, U.S. Senator[22]
- Thomas Allen Jenckes, U.S. Congressman[17]
- William Jones, Governor of Rhode Island[15]
- Herbert W. Ladd, Governor of Rhode Island[23]
- Benedict Lapham, industrialist, philanthropist[24]
- Oscar Lapham, U.S. Congressman[25]
- Charles W. Lippitt, Governor of Rhode Island [15]
- Henry Lippitt, Governor of Rhode Island [15]
- Henry Frederick Lippitt, U.S. Senator[26]
- Alfred Henry Littlefield, Governor of Rhode Island[15]
- H. P. Lovecraft, American author[4]
- Jesse Houghton Metcalf, U.S. Senator[27]
- Seth Padelford, Governor of Rhode Island[15]
- Charles H. Page, U.S. Congressman[28]
- Vahram Papazyan, Olympic runner[citation needed]
- Elisha Hunt Rhodes, Union Civil War veteran featured prominently in Ken Burns's The Civil War
- John S. Slocum, Colonel of the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, killed in action at the Battle of Bull Run
- James Y. Smith, Mayor of Providence and Governor of Rhode Island[29]
- William Sprague III, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator[15]
- William Sprague IV, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator[15]
- Alfred E. Stone, Providence architect[4]
- Royal C. Taft, Governor of Rhode Island[30]
See also
References
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