Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries

Skip Navigation Links

Cemetery NumberSK139
TownSOUTH KINGSTOWN
Cemetery NameJOHN BROWN LOT
Find A Grave (Opens in New Tab)
Graves ListDisplay Graves List
Location[REMOVED TO SK043] WAS ON LIBERTY LANE
StateRI
DirectionS
Pole Number 
Distance3000
Map Number 
Page Number 
Plat Number 
Deed Book 
Deed Page 
Size in Feet35
Size in Feet30
Burials5
Inscriptions2
Fieldstones3
Tombs 
Exist?NO
Last seen date?1880
Newest1880
Oldest1877
Vandalism 
Veteran 
PoleN
CommentThis cemetery is located about three thousand feet south of Liberty Lane in the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge, six hundred feet past the rifle range parking lot on east side of the trail. It is 35 feet x 30 feet, in good condition, enclosed with a stone wall. There is no historical cemetery sign. It contains three fieldstone-marked burials. This is the original site of the John Brown burial ground. Arnold recorded this lot Nov. 19, 1880, numbering it #255 and commenting “on land of the late John Brown in Great Neck a burial yard as follows. Fenced only.” The 1870 Beers Atlas shows this area to be the John Brown farm. There is a replacement granite stone in sect J of Riverside Cemetery, SK043, for the two stones found here by Arnold in 1880.
Conditionfair
Enclosurestone wall
Gateno gate
Growthovergrown-trees
Terrainlevel
Cemetery Location
Cemetery Burial Map N/A