Mount Hope Cemetery (Boston)

Mount Hope Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	355 Walk Hill Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°17′2″N 71°6′9″W / 42.28389°N 71.10250°WCoordinates: 42°17′2″N 71°6′9″W / 42.28389°N 71.10250°W
Area	125 acres (51 ha)
NRHP Reference #	09000767[1]
Added to NRHP	September 25, 2009

Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. It was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It is the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.^[1]

Interments

• Leonard Chadwick, Medal of Honor recipient.^[3]
• George Dixon, first Canadian and first black world boxing champion.^[4]
• Gottlieb Graupner, musician^[5]
• Roland Hayes, lyric tenor, first African American to sing at Carnegie Hall^[6]
• Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson, American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.^[7]
• Michael "King" Kelly, Hall of Fame baseball player^[8]
• Susie Taylor, first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves, first black Army nurse^[9]
• Theodore Dwight Weld, abolitionist^[10]
• One British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Canadian Air Force officer of World War II.^[11]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts

References

1. National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "NRHP nomination for Mount Hope Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
3. "Leonard B. Chadwick". Find A Grave.
4. "George Dixon". Find A Grave.
5. Catherine Graupner Stone, quoted in: Philip Hale, "The birth-date of Gottlieb Graupner", Boston Symphony Orchestra Programme for 29th season, 1909-1910 (Boston: The Orchestra, 1910)
6. "Roland Hayes". Find A Grave.
7. "Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson". Find A Grave.
8. "Michael "King" Kelly". Find A Grave.
9. "Susie King Taylor". Find A Grave.
10. "Theodore Dwight Weld". Find A Grave.
11. "Casualty Details". Cwgc.org. 1943-07-20. Retrieved 2016-05-21.