Liberty Cemetery was founded in 1801 at the border of Ludlow and Belchertown. It is part of twin cemeteries – one in each town. The Belchertown section of the cemetery is called the Liberty Cemetery and the Ludlow section is called the East Cemetery or the Ould Cemetery. See East Ould Cemetery for more on that cemetery.
Mount Hope Cemetery was established in 1846. It is located in the center of Belchertown. Some of the burials in this cemetery are from other cemeteries in the Quabbin area that were moved here in the 1930s.
Sophronia Packard – LINK
Nathaniel Chickering – LINK
Also when this cemetery was opened up it was viewed as a more beautiful cemetery than others in town and so many families had deceased members moved into this cemetery from others in town.
Warner Pine Grove Memorial Cemetery is on Turkey Hill Road at the edge of the Belchertown State School property and was their burial grounds. The first burial at this institutional cemetery was on July 21 1925 for a Eva Landry who had died 3 days earlier.
The death of George LaFoe at the state school might have precipitated the new cemetery.
There do exist earlier burials at the institution that are not noted on the plaque at the cemetery.
See the John Lee burial of May of 1925
See the Gertrude Sutton burial of May of 1925
Earlier burials were at the South Cemetery in Belchertown. See the Gertrude Benson burial of March of 1925.
and the Robert Tulloch burial of April 1925
and the John Scott burial
In Memory of Our Friends Who Have Gone to Their Rest Before Us.
His mother died in Worcester and was buried in the older Hillside Cemetery there. Thus it is very unlikely the burial number 132 at this cemetery is the mother of Albert Warner. What really has happened is that Celia her burial number of 132 has been moved to the Warner Pine Grove Memorial Cemetery in Belchertown from the Hillside West Cemetery in Shrewsbury as a symbolic gesture.
Dwight Cemetery is at the end of Cemetery Road near Federal and Amherst Streets in the northwestern section of the town. It is just pass Gulf Street when one is heading west on Route 9 and this is important since there is no longer a street sign.
Perhaps made in 1790. The Arnold family has a large presence in this cemetery. This is also called Union Cemetery.
Walter Corbin data is found at LINK and see FINDAGRAVE
A wooden fence has replaced an older granite fence.
Affleck Ruling and Stationery
Whiting Street Ruling and Stationery Company was at this location from 1895 to 1901. It was then renamed Affleck Ruling and Stationery. This company in 1908 would move to 18 North Bridge Street (corner of Lyman). It was apparently renamed again since by 1915 it is called the Essex Pad and Paper.
J E Brown Cotton Works
Holyoke Bar Company
Sanborn 1895 map – hard to find
Sanborn 1915 map – hard to find
