Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1646
Text by Robert Severy:
Cedar Grove Cemetery Lot 53, Cedar Avenue and Linden Avenue, of the Benjamin Stone Jr. Post of the Grand Army of the Republic at 91 Park Street in Field’s Corner
This is the most visited lot in the cemetery with speakers, prayers, flags, wreaths, and the firing of volleys on every Memorial Day whether it rains or shines. Forty one Civil War soldiers and sailors were interred in this lot from 1872 to 1933. Wisely the Stone Post acquired the space not long after its organization and the first burial at Cedar Grove Cemetery in February of 1870. The post built a now vanished hall at 91 Park Street in Field’s Corner which in 1942 was occupied by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2235. The records of the post are now in the Grand Army of the Republic Room at the State House on Beacon Mill in Boston.
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