"Summary of our Cemeteries"
These are sorted by ownership Town-Owned Cemeteries Alms House Cemetery Infirmary Cemetery Town-Entrusted Cemeteries Fall Brook Cemetery Gammons Cemetery Gilbert Peirce Cemetery Reed Cemetery Tack Factory Cemetery Warrentown Cemetery Association-Owned Cemeteries Cemetery at The Green Central Cemetery Nemasket Hill Cemetery Purchade Cemetery Rock Cemetery Saint Marys Cemetery South Middleboro Cemetery Thomastown Cemetery Titicut Parish Cemetery Wappanucket Cemetery Association Managed Cemetery Drake Cemetery Cemeteries with unknown owners Soule Street Smallpox Cemetery Vaughan Cemetery Cemeteries on private property "Eaton North" Cemetery Church of Our Savior Crypt Susan Francis Burial Ground Universalist Unitarian Memorial Garden Vernon Street Smallpox Cemetery Wood Cemetery Deborah Cushing Gravesite Ephraim Cobb Gravesite Lemuel Lyon Gravesite Marcy Tinkham Gravesite Cemeteries that are lost "Eaton South" Cemetery Samuel Sampson Gravesite defunct cemetery Swift Family Cemetery (defunct) Not within Middleborough Benson Cemetery |
There are 33 known burial places in our town. Our colonial ancestors placed human remains in what they called "burial grounds". It was only about the 1840s that the term "cemetery" began to be used. The change occurred as a result of the changing view of death.
Massachusetts State Law defines a cemetery as “an area of land set aside and dedicated for the final disposition of the remains of a deceased person”. Technically, a gravesite is a cemetery, as well as a place where cremains are placed. Native American Burial Grounds: The land of Middleborough has been occupied for thousands of years. Laws are in place that detail the process for those occasions when human remains are discovered. Should you find human remains: Do not disturb the remains, and call both the State and Local Police. The Massachusetts Historical Commission give more information here. Clicking any of the links on the left will bring you to the cemetery page on this website.
View Burial Places within Middleborough in a larger map |