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Mowry Tavern (demolished), a
stone-ender on Abbott St., built in 1650, with the Cemetery behind it
The North Burial Ground is a 110-acre cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island, dating to 1700. Providence had no public burial ground and no Common until the year 1700 (64 years after its founding) because Rhode Island's religious and government institutions were so rigorously kept distinct, dating back to its founding by Roger Williams in 1636. Before creating this cemetery, townspeople buried their dead in family plots on individual farms.
[edit] Prominent people buried at cemetery
- John Brown, merchant, U.S. Representative, slave trader, co-founder of Brown University
- Sam Walter Foss, librarian, poet.
- Stephen Hopkins, politician, Rhode Island governor, Founding Father, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (grave picture)
- Horace Mann, educator, founder of Antioch College, U.S. Representative
- Henry J. Steere, philanthropist, manufacturer
- Sarah Helen Whitman, poet, essayist, and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe
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