Fairview Cemetery (Additional Documentation)

45 Fairview Ave., Boston, Massachusetts. County/parish: Suffolk.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 16, 2009. NRIS 09000717.

1 contributing building. 1 contributing site. 4 contributing structures. 4 contributing objects.

From Wikipedia:

Fairview Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)

Fairview Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A small section of the cemetery is located in neighboring Dedham. The cemetery was established by the town of Hyde Park in 1892, and became the responsibility of the city of Boston when it annexed that town in 1912. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 2009. It is the newest of Boston's cemeteries, and has more than 40,000 burials. It is the location where the City of Boston “bury indigent and unclaimed people”.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797098

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