Harvard Cemeteries

In honor of the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, the Harvard Historical Society organized a tour of the Center Cemetery, highlighting Harvard’s very own Revolutionary soldiers who lie in rest there.

In March 1893 the town approved a new cemetery site; Henry Warner named it Bellevue.

The Harvard Shaker Cemetery, also known as the “Lollipop Cemetery,” is a unique burial ground located in the Shaker Village of Harvard, Massachusetts.

This tour explores the town through the graves of some of the people who shaped its history: Founding Fathers Simon Stone and Peter Atherton, the manservant Othello, Civil War soldier William Henry Hall, stonecutter Isaac Stone, philanthropist Margaret Blanchard, and adventurer William Savage.