Shawsheen Cemetery
Shawsheen Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Great Road and Shawsheen Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The cemetery is Bedford's second, opened in 1849 as its Old Burying Ground was filling up. The original ten acres, and a number of smaller additions between 1894 and 1959, were laid out in the rural cemetery style made fashionable in the 19th century. The total size of the cemetery is, but not all of this has been developed.
The older sections of the cemetery were listed on the National Register of [Historic Places] in 2007.
Notable burials
- Dorothy Carolin Bacon — American economist and college professor
- Ruth Elizabeth Bacon — American foreign service officer
- Alexandra Carlisle — American actress
- Charles H. Holbrow — American physicist and college professor
- Charles [Wilson Killam] — American architect, engineer, and professor at Harvard University
- Herman H. B. Meyer — American librarian for the Library of Congress