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Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
Cemetery Number
CR020
Town
CRANSTON
Cemetery Name
KNIGHTVILLE MEETING HOUSE LOT
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Location
PARK AVE
State
RI
Direction
N
Pole Number
10
Distance
100
Map Number
Page Number
Plat Number
Deed Book
Deed Page
Size in Feet
Size in Feet
Inscriptions
110
Fieldstones
Tombs
Exist?
YES
Last seen date?
2013
Newest
1887
Oldest
1785
Vandalism
Y
Veteran
80
Pole
N
Comment
Located 100 feet north of Park Avenue directly behind the Knightsville meeting house. Sign says Cranston cemetery #29, should be #20 James N. Arnold visited this cemetery 2 Nov. 1890, Vol. 3, pg. 572-642, "in the meeting house lot at Knightsville. Lot badly over run with briars and over growth of wild weeds some of the lot have good fences around them, others more or less neglected."
Condition
fair
Enclosure
granite posts/iron rails
Gate
no gate
Growth
cleared
Terrain
level
Cemetery Location
Cemetery Burial Map
N/A
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