Mount Hope Cemetery (Boston)

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 was 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.[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.[2]

Mount Hope Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	355 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan,[1] Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°17′2″N 71°6′9″W
Area	125 acres (51 ha)
NRHP reference No.	09000767[2]
Added to NRHP	September 25, 2009

Interments

• Leonard Chadwick (1878–1940), Medal of Honor recipient.[4]
• George Dixon (1870–1908), first Canadian and first black world boxing champion.[5]
• Gottlieb Graupner (1767–1836), musician[6]
• The Grimké sisters
  • Angelina Grimké (1805–1879), abolitionist and women's rights advocate[7]
  • Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873), abolitionist and women's right advocate[7]
• Roland Hayes (1887–1977), lyric tenor, first African American to sing at Carnegie Hall[8]
• Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson (died 1976), American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.[9]
• Michael "King" Kelly (1857–1894), Hall of Fame baseball player[10]
• Edward Griffin Mead (died 1943, age 27), Flying Officer Royal Canadian Air Force[11]
• Susie Taylor (1848–1912), first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves, first black Army nurse[12]
• Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895), abolitionist[13]

In May 2020, the remains of fifty victims of infectious diseases, including smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, syphilis, and other diseases, were removed from the cemetery on Gallops Island in Boston Harbor where they were threatened by storm damage and reinterred in the Graceland section of Mount Hope. Their identities are unknown; they died between 1871 and 1902 and the fifty include people of African, Asian, and European origin.[14]

See also

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

References

1. "Mount Hope | Historic Burying Grounds | City of Boston". Cityofboston.gov.
2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
3. "NRHP nomination for Mount Hope Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
4. "Leonard Chadwick - victoriacross". Vconline.org.uk.
5. "June 27, 1890: George Dixon Becomes First Black World Boxing Champion". Blackthen.com. June 27, 2018.
6. 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)
7. James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; College, Radcliffe (August 21, 1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. p. 99 – via Internet Archive. sarah grimke mount hope.
8. Brooks, Christopher A.; Sims, Robert (December 22, 2014). Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor. Indiana University Press. p. 311. ISBN 9780253015396 – via Google Books.
9. "Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson". Digital.nepr.net.
10. Lee, Bill (April 16, 2009). The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others. McFarland. p. 471. ISBN 9780786442393 – via Google Books.
11. "Casualty Details". Cwgc.org. July 20, 1943. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
13. "WWHP - Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895)". Wwhp.org. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
14. MacQuarrie, Brian (June 14, 2020). "A century later, another epidemic's victims are remembered and reburied". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 15, 2020.