Walnut Grove Cemetery

Walnut Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Grove and Railroads Streets in Methuen, Massachusetts. The still active cemetery sits on 14 acres (5.7 ha) and is privately funded with a board of directors. The cemetery was established in 1853, and was laid out in the then-popular rural cemetery style. The Tenney Memorial Chapel given by the Daniel G. Tenney in 1927 as a memorial to his parents Charles H. Tenney and Fannie Haseltine (Gleason) Tenney.^[2] The chapel was designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury. The earliest burial is estimated to be about 1850; whereas the number of burials before 1960 is unknown, there have been 896 burials since 1960.

Walnut Grove Cemetery

Walnut Grove Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Methuen, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°43′23″N 71°11′27″W
Built	1853
MPS	Methuen MRA
NRHP reference No.	84002444[1]
Added to NRHP	January 20, 1984

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Methuen, Massachusetts