Milton Cemetery is a historic

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

at 211 Centre Street in

Milton, Massachusetts Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Milton is an immediate southern suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. The population was 28,630 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Milton is located in the relatively hilly ...

. Established in 1672, it is the town's only municipal burying ground. There are three distinct sections to its grounds: the original burying ground, a tract of which was in use between 1672 and 1854, a "new" section, laid out in 1854 in the

rural cemetery A rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of cemetery that became popular in the United States and Europe in the mid-19th century due to the overcrowding and health concerns of urban cemeteries, which tended to be churchyards. Rural cemeter ...

style which was fashionable in the 19th century, and a "modern" section, established in 1945. It was founded in 1672 and added to the

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in 2004. Among those interred in the cemetery are: * Dennis Miller Bunker, American Impressionist Painter * James A. Burke,

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from Massachusetts * Elbie Fletcher,

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player * Edward A. Gisburne, United States Navy sailor and

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recipient * Nathaniel Carl Goodwin, actor and

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, businessman and founder of the

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restaurant and hotel chain *

Wendell Phillips Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, labor reformer, temperance activist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney. According to George Lewis Ruffin, a black attorney, Phillip ...

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, advocate for Native Americans, and orator *

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, player in the

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* Paul H. Weinert, United States Army soldier and

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