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Cemetery NumberCR003
TownCRANSTON
Cemetery NameOAKLAND CEMETERY
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LocationBROAD ST
StateRI
DirectionW
Pole Number287
Distance20
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Size in Feet700
Size in Feet680
Burials5000
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Exist?YES
Last seen date?2012
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CommentLocated aside Broad Street opposite Narragansett Street and just east of Roger Williams Park. It is 6 acres. George N. Briggs purchased land from Elizabeth Jenkes in 1847 and formed the cemetery corporation the next year. In 1927 a granite mausoleum was built to accommodate 1200 burials. In the south central part of this cemetery is a collection of eighteenth century slate, sandstone and marble gravestones moved from the West Burial Ground (PV019) in Providence in 1870. In 1870 the Benevolent Congregational Society of Providence purchased a plot 60 ft. by 100 ft. in the Oakland Cemetery in Cranston and moved a number of burials from its cemetery in the West Burial Ground. Only a few (195) of the older gravestones have been recorded so far.
Conditiongood
Enclosuremetal fence
Gategate missing
Growthgrass-well kept
Terrainlevel
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