Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1862
Today’s illustration is a photo of Clapp Avenue in the Dorchester Old North Burying Ground.
In the 17th century, the burial ground was simply a cemetery, but in the 19th century the garden cemetery movement had its influence on Dorchester’s Old North with the installation of ornamental shrubbery and bedding out of annuals.
The National Register nomination description says: Dorchester North contains approximately 1200 markers—upright stones of slate, marble, sandstone, granite, and bronze and scores of above-and at-grade tombs in straight ranges. The various markers displayed range from squat, upright curve-topped slabs from the 17th century to light-toned, slender rectangular steles popular in the late 18h century to the more substantial, thick, varied shapes of the 19th century monuments. The total effect is more polychrome and varied than any other of the ancient Burying Grounds in Boston.
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