Wildwood Cemetery is off of Strong Street. It is in the garden style. This is a private cemetery that has its own web site. External LINK – and HISTORY page
ROUTE of TOUR to be used for our tree and physical property TOUR.
FINDAGRAVE description of this cemetery
PLAT MAP of the cemetery
Wildwood Cemetery Arboretum Walking Tour – has map and tree species list
Wildwood Cemetery Arboretum (internal link)
Landscape of the Wildwood Cemetery
The cemetery was started in 1887 and developed from there to be ready in 1889.
William Austin Dickinson helped greatly with the design.
EXTERNAL VIDEO on the small connection to Olmsted
The house in the cemetery is from 1790 and is the L Dickinson house.
The chapel was donated in 1897 by the owner of the Dickinson at that time.
Fidelia Dickinson is buried in the West Cemetery of Amherst – FINDAGRAVE Her husband is Joseph Dickinson Jr and her father in law is Joseph Dickinson Sr. When this Joseph Sr married Sarah Hunt in about 1795 they must have had the house built.
The land to the south of the cemetery belongs to the Wildwood Cemetery and you can walk on it. The land to the northeast of the cemetery once belonged to Wildwood and it is held as an Amherst conservation land.
Interesting Burials – LINK
Christopher Paige LINK – Christopher was buried in the Town House Cemetery of Prescott and then moved in 1938 to Wildwood Cemetery of Amherst Massachusetts during the reburials due to the construction of Quabbin Reservoir. Same for his wife Judith and also for Elisha Haskins and his wife Phoebe. Also the infants Azulina Paige and Edwin Paige.
The Esty family is buried with a series of ledger gravestones in the Eastern Hillside B section.
Nathaniel Dickinson Adams LINK had a son Charles Adams LINK. Charles was the first burial ever in this cemetery. The father of Charles was moved into this cemetery as a reburial from an unknown cemetery. This perhaps happened in 1892 when Charles’ mother Hariette died in that year.
Watch a video and then a podcast on the cemetery.
