Olde Center Burial Grounds

There was once an older cemetery in Easthampton and it was across from the Williston Seminary. It started about the 1750s and lasted to about 1865 when it was moved into the Main Street Cemetery (Main Street Cemetery). Most of these are positioned around the holding tomb in the back of that cemetery. However, others are scattered around the cemetery with the other burials. The reason why is that the families were asked if they wanted to have their ancestor buried in a plot and if the family wanted to pay for one then they are found around the cemetery.

Olde Center Burial Grounds is where the Providence Methodist Church and the Old First National Bank of Easthampton is now. It was opposite the original Williston.

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