Old_Burial_Hill_(Marblehead,_Massachusetts)

Old Burial Hill (Marblehead, Massachusetts)

Old Burial Hill (Marblehead, Massachusetts)

Historic cemetery in Essex County, Massachusetts


Old Burial Hill is a historic cemetery in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It is located on the high ground between Marblehead's colonial-era residential and retail district, called "Downtown" by longtime residents and "Old Town" by others, and the Barnegat neighborhood that stretches from Little Harbor to Doliber's Cove, and is accessible via a walkway at Redd's Pond and a stairway at the intersection of Orne and Pond streets. It was the location of Marblehead's First Meeting House built around 1638.[1] Old Burial Hill features scenic vistas of Marblehead Harbor and Salem Sound.

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The burying ground was founded in 1638 and contains many historic Puritan gravestones featuring diverse stone carving artwork from the seventeenth century. The burial ground also contains the remains of a victim of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.[2] It is referenced briefly in the horror author H.P Lovecraft's short-story, The Festival.

It was the setting of the daytime cemetery scenes in Disney's 1993 Halloween comedy-drama film Hocus Pocus. The nighttime cemetery scenes, including Billy Butcherson's resurrection, were filmed on a sound stage at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.[3] Select scenes for the film The Good Son (1993) were also filmed here.

Puritan ministers’ graves on Old Burial Hill
The First Meeting House (1638), located at an unknown location on Old Burial Hill, demolished by 1695.
Old Burial Hill

Notable burials and cenotaphs


References

  1. Under the Golden Cod : a shared history of the Old North Church and the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1635-1985. Old North Church.th Anniversary Book Committee. Canaan, N.H.: Phoenix Pub. 1984. ISBN 0-914659-05-7. OCLC 10725026.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. younger.), Samuel Roads (the (1881). A Guide to Marblehead. M.H. Graves.

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