FORM E - BURIAL GROUNDS
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
Religious affiliation non-denominational
Owner Town of Rockland__________
Who has further information about burial ground?
(Address)
1. Town
RocklandLocation
Name i
Webster Street
Maplewood Cemetery
Condition: Well kept up x(if neglected, explain how)
Neglected
What type information: lot plans inscriptions
gravestone descriptions other
Approx. number gravestones 400+
Earliest death date___1746
Most recent death date 1981
HISTORY OF BURIAL GROUND
The Maplewood Cemetery is one of the two oldest in East Abington
(Rockland). Eleazor Whiting buried a child here in 1746, the first
known death. This stone is no longer standing. The oldest marker is
that of Captain John Burrell in 1754. Maplewood Cemetery has been
in continuous use since that date. Some of the earliest lots were lost.
when Webster Street was widened, and when neighboring driveways were
built. The cemetery received a granite wall boundary, probably in
the early twentieth century, which is still well maintained.
3. MONUMENTS -Overall condition: x upright fallen (approx. no.)
4. MAP: Footage from street_________inscription legibility
