Bay Path Cemetery is also called the Almshouse Burial Ground and was the city farm cemetery. It is the potters field of Springfield. It is on Blunt Park Road close to Roosevelt Avenue or in other words close to the entrance of the park. The burial ground is in the park itself. It started about 1873 and ended all burials in 1930. Death certificate will read death at the City Home Hospital and burial at the Almshouse. Hospital was at 1400 State Street. There are numbered stones in this cemetery but no gravestone inscriptions. There are 896 burials here. Last burial was in 1951 and cemetery closed in 1954.
