Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register _ Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National x Local government Register _ University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Vame of repository: # - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Center Cemetery Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Hampshire County, Massachusetts County and State Acreage of Property 2.4 Acres UTM References See continuation sheet.
(Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1.18 6.69.280 46.95.400 Zone Easting Northing "Zone Easting Northing 3. Zone Easting 4. Zone Easting _ See continuation sheet Northing Northing Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title Martha H. Lyon, ASLA, Proprietor, Paysage - with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization_Massachusetts Historical Commission street & number_220 Morrissey Boulevard _ date_January, 2004 telephone 617.727.8470 city or town_Boston _ stateMA _ zip code_02125 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.
A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Iown of Worthington street & number Iown Hall, P. O. Box 247, Huntington Road .telephone 413.238.5577 city or townWorthington state_MA _ zip code 01098 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).
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NARRATIVE STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Center Cemetery, Sam Hill Road, possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association and meets National Register Criteria A and C at the local level. Standing alongside mature woodlands, relict apple orchards, and cultivated agricultural lands near the hamlet of Worthington Center, Center Cemetery was established in the 1770s, just ten years after the settlement of the town. Local legend claims that graves from the town's original meetinghouse burying ground were moved to Center Cemetery in the early 1790s. This coincided with the relocation of the meetinghouse from a spot one-half mile west of the cemetery, to another half mile east. However, no written material exists documenting the exact date of Center Cemetery's founding.
Its earliest burial occurred circa 1774, and it continues to accommodate new graves to this day. Its 2.4 acres makes it the third largest of Worthington's six cemeteries. Center Cemetery holds the graves of many of Worthington's original settlers and their families, organizers of the First Congregational Church, veterans of five wars, and many families influential in the growth and development of the town. Settlers include Nahum Eager (d. 1805), Worthington's first town clerk and representative to the Provincial Congress, John Kinne (d. 1813), one of the first Worthington Selectmen, and John Watts (d. 1777), the town's first Tithingman. Ebenezer Leonard (d. 1813), a Revolutionary War Lieutenant, led the assembling of local troops, and is one of twelve veterans of the American Revolution and 51 total veterans buried at Center Cemetery.
Prominent families include the Brewsters (descendents of Mayflower passengers), Starkweathers, Burrs, and Porters, all involved in organizing, developing, and shaping the town. (continued) (NPS0rm 1 10-900-1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 - National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page 2 Center Cemetery meets Criterion C through several landscape features and many locally- carved grave markers. While the cemetery is open along its entire northern boundary to Sam Hill Road, its other edges are secured by a fieldstone wall. Mature sugar maple trees, planted in even rows, line the entire perimeter. Crude turf and dirt cart paths traverse the cemetery in a grid pattern.
Wild strawberry, perennial thyme, lichens, and bluets are among the many wild flowers growing amid the cemetery's turf, creating a colorful carpet throughout. Many of Center Cemetery's markers reflect materials of the local environment and the artistry of local craftsmen. Marble, a stone native to the Berkshires, accounts for 63% of the markers and monuments, with several stones displaying the work of local carvers. Included is the signed work of G. Fleming, H. Pomeroy, Rule & Marble, T. Sturges, Logan & Joyner, and F. Munnier. Goshen Stone, a material native to the neighboring town of Goshen, marks several graves, including the most unusual grave of Jereme Kinne (d. 1777) (Photo #4). The marker displays the rare "Hampton Indian" motif, an image found in very few places outside of Hampton, Connecticut.
Center Cemetery retains the integrity of an 18" century rural burial ground, arranged alongside agricultural fields, orchards, and woodlands, and protected by a fieldstone wall. While burials continue at the cemetery to this day, Worthington has maintained its centuries-old character and preserved it as one the town's most significant historic landscapes. A Brief History of Worthington Establishment and Early History (1700s) The land that comprises the town of Worthington today was purchased on June 2, 1762 from the Province of Massachusetts Bay. It was sold at auction as 'Plantation Number 3' along with several other land tracts in the area. Aaron Willard Jr. of Lancaster made the purchase for himself and four other buyers: Selah Barnard, Josiah Dwight, Timothy Dwight, and John Worthington, for whom the Town was named.
These five people were (continued) NPS Form 110-900-2 8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page 3 the original proprietors of Plantation Number 3, and the earliest settlers purchased land from them. The proprietors donated land for the settlement's first meetinghouse, grist mill, and school, and also financed the construction of the meetinghouse and grist mill. Many of Worthington's first settlers came to the area from Preston, Connecticut. They began to arrive and establish homesteads by the late spring of 1764. Other early settlers came from central and eastern Massachusetts, drawn to the area because of its large tracts of land for agriculture and streams for the powering of grist and lumber mills.
The Town of Worthington was officially incorporated on June 30th, 1768. Following incorporation residents began to establish important community amenities including the meetinghouse (1760s), two taverns (1760s), a church (1771), and a school (1773). By 1776 the town's population had reached approximately 639 people. The first meetinghouse was constructed near the intersection of today's Sam Hill Road and West Street. By all accounts it was a somewhat primitive and uncomfortable building which was constructed over a period of many years. The town's First Congregational Church, organized in 1771, appears to have used the meetinghouse for its services as well. The townspeople may have established a cemetery behind this structure in 1771, the same year they hired Reverend Jonathan Huntington, the town's first minister.
In the early 1790s the meetinghouse was dismantled, redesigned and rebuilt near the intersection of Harvey and Huntington Roads, responding to an eastward shift in the town's population. During the Revolutionary War, Worthington provided troops and supplies whenever requests were made. Captain Ebenezer Webber of Worthington led 71 Minute Men from Worthington and Ashfield to the Boston area in 1775. At least 42 Worthington soldiers participated in the Revolutionary War. (continued) NPS Foru 110-900-1 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page 4 Growth of the Town (late 1700s and 1800s) Worthington's early settlers engaged primarily in agriculture, producing flax, corn, hay, wheat, tobacco, rye, butter, cheese, barley, potatoes, oats, maple molasses, maple sugar, buckwheat, peas, beans, beeswax, and honey. Many Worthington residents raised sheep and exported the wool, but lower prices from abroad during the 1800s led to the decline of sheep farming in the town. The Westfield River and the numerous streams in Worthington provided power for many different mills and factories.
Beginning in the 1700s and throughout the 1800s a wide variety of goods were produced in Worthington, including lumber and wood furniture, sleds and children's toys, tool handles, leather saddles, harnesses, baskets, shoes, cider, and cheese. During this period the settlers of the town established several small villages or hamlets, many of which had their own municipal amenities including post offices, schools and cemeteries. These hamlets included: West Worthington, Christian Hollow or Sampsonville, Worthington Corners, Worthington Center, Ringville, the Kinne/Pease District, and South Worthington. Worthington Corners historically was a crossroads, containing amenities such as stores, taverns, a post office, and the North Cemetery. During the 1800s a cheese factory and basket shop also operated in this part of town.
In 1797 the Albany-Boston Turnpike was constructed through Worthington, resulting in a constant flow of people, traffic, and news through the town. During this period there were five taverns in Worthington, accommodating the public and private stagecoaches using the Turnpike. The advent of the railroad in 1841, which did not run through Worthington, greatly reduced the traffic along the Turnpike and substantially altered the character of the town. According to historian and author Clifton Johnson, "Worthington became an inland town," and "the stores and taverns along the line of the old road disappeared." Approximately 24 Worthington soldiers served in the War of 1812, including William Ward and William Rice as commissioned officers. Between 62 and 102 men served in the Civil War, and 21 were killed or died during service.
(continued) (VPSForm 1 10-900-1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 - National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page In 1825, the first meetinghouse, which had been moved from its original location in the early 1790s, was abandoned and a new building constructed on the site of today's Congregational Church. During the 1800s two other churches were established in Worthington, both of Methodist Episcopal denomination. One was in South Worthington and was established in 1828, and the other was in West Worthington and was established in 1849. In 1810, the town's population reached a high point of 1391. After the opening of the railroad in 1841 along the Westfield River several miles to the south, the population of Worthington slowly declined.
By 1900 only 675 resided in Worthington. Worthington in the 20'h Century During the early 1900s dairy farming became an important part of the local economy, but like sheep farming during the 1800s it had declined by mid-century. Similar to most communities across the State, agriculture as a source of employment has declined steadily in Worthington over the past century. The mills and factories of the 1800s have also closed, no longer providing local employment. The hamlet of Ringville, for example, once supported the Ring and Hayden Mills as well as its own school, post office and stores. By the late 1900s it consisted of a small number of homes and the Ringville Cemetery (NR pending). Today many Worthington residents commute to neighboring towns and cities for employment and shopping. Twenty-six Worthington men served in World War I and 52 served in World War II.
Their names are listed on a boulder within the town common, and include four who lost their lives: William J. Coffey, Norman C. Eddy, Donald W. Mollison, and Russell B. Shaw. In 1950 local citizens established the Worthington Health Center to replace the country doctor who retired in that year. A private enterprise, the Health Center receives funding from annual dues paid by members and from donations, as well as fees charged to patients. It is a unique system that serves citizens from the town of Worthington as well as many surrounding towns. (continued) NNP55or 1 10-900-1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Section number_8 Page 6 Because of its position at the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, Worthington has become something of a summer colony, with many people maintaining seasonal residence. After reaching a low of 462 just after World War II, the town's population has been increasing with each passing decade. By 1990, 1200 resided in Worthington, operating local businesses, owning home-based enterprises, and commuting to jobs in nearby Northampton and Amherst. The population remains stable to this day. Center Cemetery Very little is known about the establishment and evolution of Center Cemetery, however it likely evolved from an earlier burial ground located next to the first meetinghouse, which stood at the northwest corner of Sam Hill Road and West Street, less than .5 mile to the west of Center Cemetery.
During the early 1790s the first meetinghouse and its adjacent cemetery were moved from their original location, though no documentation survives to suggest why this occurred. The meetinghouse was placed near the intersection of Sam Hill Road and Huntington Road, but no records indicate where the graves were relocated. Because Center Cemetery is so close to the location of the first meetinghouse and cemetery and because it contains a number of pre-1790s headstones, it is likely that graves moved from the original cemetery were relocated to Center Cemetery (none of the other public cemeteries in Worthington contains stones this old). According to "The John Watts Story in Worthington" (Porter, unpublished paper) the Cemetery was expanded in 1872, at which time the town purchased a piece of land from John Adams. Today the cemetery is approximately 2.4 acres in size.
Town Vital Records, historical accounts and site visits indicate that Center Cemetery contains the gravesites of several citizens of outstanding local signiticance. At least seven of the original inhabitants who settled the town and their families (as listed by James C. Rice in "History of the Town of Worthington From Its First Settlement to 1874") are buried in Center Cemetery. These families were headed by Nahum and Sarah Eager (d. 1805 and 1809), Jereme Kinne (d. 1777) (Photo #4), John and Anna Kinne (d. 1813 and 1805), Ebenezer Leonard (d. 1813), Joseph Marsh (d. 1838), Elihu Tinker (d. 1816), and John Watts (d. 1777). In addition to being an early settler, Nahum Eager was also elected as Worthington's first Town Clerk, and served as the town's first (continued) NPSFerm 1 10-900-4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page representative to the Provincial Congress. John Kinne served as one of the town's first selectmen. Ebenezer Leonard served in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant, and was also chosen as chairman to correspond with authorities in Boston regarding the assembling of local troops. John Watts was elected the town's first Tithingman. Other early settlers buried at Center Cemetery who served the town include Matthew Warner (d. 1823), representative to the State's General Court in 1799, and General Jonathan Woodbridge (d. 1808), a veteran and also a representative to the General Court in 1804, 1805, and 1807. Center Cemetery is closely associated with the earliest religious history of this community.
It contains the gravesites of the town's first minister, Reverend Jonathan Huntington and his wife Sarah, both founding members of the First Congregational Church. Other founding members buried in Center Cemetery include Ebenezer Leonard and Joseph Marsh. Some of the earliest settlers of Worthington had come from Preston, Connecticut. These included the Leonards (Ebenezer Leonard was discussed earlier), the Brewsters, and the Starkweathers. The earliest Brewsters to settle in Worthington were descended from Elder William Brewster, who came to this country on the Mayflower. While the majority of the early Brewsters who settled the town were buried in the Brewster Cemetery (a small family cemetery), Moses Brewster (d. 1809) was buried in Center Cemetery. He was a seventh generation descendant of Elder William Brewster, and served as Worthington's physician for many years.
Several later descendants of the Brewster family are also buried in Center Cemetery, including Elisha H. Brewster (d. 1878), Charles K. and Celina S. Brewster (d. 1908), and Elisha H. Brewster (d. 1946). The first Elisha H. Brewster (d. 1878), known to locals as 'Squire Brewster', served as a selectman, a Hampshire County Commissioner, a State senator and representative, and as a member of the Governor's Council. He was also a trustee of the Northampton Institution for Savings, director of the Hampshire Mutal Fire Insurance Company, a Hampshire County justice of the peace, and criminal court judge. Charles K. Brewster, known as "C.K.," was the son of Squire Brewster. He also served (continued) (NPS Form 1 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service - National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page__ 8 as selectman, town clerk, County Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, State representative, bank trustee, and director of an insurance company. C.K. was instrumental in establishing Worthington's first public water system, and wrote a supplement to James Clay Rice's 1853 book "History of the Town of Worthington." The second Elisha H. Brewster (d. 1946), known as Judge Brewster, was appointed to serve as a federal district court judge by President Harding in 1922, a position he held until his retirement in 1942. Kingman Brewster, a president of Yale University and Ambassador to Great Britain, and Janet Brewster Murrow, wife of radio and television journalist Edward R.
Murrow, are both buried at Center Cemetery. Two important branches of the Starkweather family are at Center Cemetery: Ezra (Photo #3) and Esther Starkweather (d. 1834 and 1838), and Charles Starkweather (d. 1835). Ezra was born in Preston, Connecticut, attending Williams College to become a doctor. After serving in the Revolutionary War he moved to Worthington and held a wide variety of public roles, ranging from the Town Clerk and Treasurer to the Town's representative to both the State Legislature and Senate. In 1820 he attended the convention to revise the State Constitution. Ezra also served as a Justice of the State Supreme Court. Charles Starkweather, Ezra's brother, was also a physician and a Deacon of his church. In 1800 four brothers of the Burr family settled in Worthington, and have been a prominent Worthington family from this period well into the 20" century.
They were descended from Reverend Jonathan Burr who had come from Suffolk County, England, and settled in Dorchester in 1639. Three of these brothers are buried at Center Cemetery, including Jonathan Burr (d. 1856), Israel Burr (d. 1826), and Calvin Burr (d. 1843). Calvin's grandson Clement Franklin Burr (1849 - 1939) served Worthington in an astounding variety of roles during his 90-year lifespan. These included employment as the town's representative to the State Legislature in 1897, Deacon of the Congregational Church, president of The Library Corporation, treasurer of the Ringville Creamery, town selectman, assessor, tax collector, town clerk, and treasurer. The Porters are another family of local significance who have long inhabited the town and shaped its history.
Descended from Richard Porter, who settled in Weymouth in (continued) (IPSForm 1 10-9001 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page_ 9 1635, members of the Porter family have lived in Worthington from the early 1800s to the present, engaging in occupations characteristic of the town, namely farming and the operation of mills. They have also served the town as selectmen, as tax collectors, and for several generations as caretakers of the town's public cemeteries. Multiple generations of the Porter family from the 1800s to the present are buried at Center Cemetery. Fifty-one war veterans are buried in Center Cemetery.
Ranging in time period from the Revolutionary War to World War II, these soldiers include 12 each who served in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and ten who served in World Wars I and II. John C Adams and William W. Adams both fought and died in the Civil War, the former dying in Nashville, Tennessee, and the latter in Alexandria, Virginia. Alfred C. Foote served as a Lieutenant General in WWII, and was earlier appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to establish the Massachusetts State Police. As with the other Worthington cemeteries, little is known about the establishment and evolution of Center Cemetery.
Its historical significance, however, lies in the fact that it appears to be descended from the oldest public burial place in Worthington, it is closely associated with the early religious history of this community, and it contains the gravesites of many early settlers and subsequent community leaders. In particular this cemetery contains the gravesites of many of the settlers from Preston, Connecticut. It also contains multiple generations of some of the oldest families to continuously inhabit the Town, for example the Brewsters, Burrs, and Porters; people who have shaped and molded this community for hundreds of years and who continue to do so today. Archaeological Significance Since patterns of ancient Native American settlement in Worthington are poorly understood, any surviving sites could be significant.
Ancient sites in this area may contribute important information relating to patterns of Native American subsistence and settlement activities in the Berkshire uplands of Western Massachusetts in general and (continued) (NPS Porm 1 10-900 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8 Page__10 specifically along tributary streams of the Westfield River. Ancient Native American sites in this area may contain information that indicates the extent to which this area was exploited by Mohican groups and their predecessors from the New York locale or by the Woronoaks and Nonotucks and their forbearers in the Connecticut River Valleys.
The above information can be used to test the extent that river basin boundaries were analogous with Native socio-political boundaries at different points in ancient history and the Contact Period. Historic archaeological resources described above have the potential to contribute important information relating to the evolution of the Center Cemetery. Important detailed information might also exist on the changing social, cultural, and economic characteristics that typified many of the inhabitants that lived in a rural New England agricultural and mill village that evolved in the 18" and 19" centuries in a river valley in the foothills of the Green Mountains of western Massachusetts. Structural evidence from outbuildings may contribute information relating to maintenance activities at the cemetery and facilities associated with funerary activities such as a hearse barn or mausoleum.
Archaeological testing might also recover evidence of post-holes, walls and gates which, when mapped may help reconstruct cemetery boundaries and family burial areas. Archaeological evidence of unmarked graves may help reconstruct burial patterns within the cemetery and the treatment of deceased paupers and other indigent persons by the town and local community. Osteological studies of skeletal remains in marked and unmarked graves may contribute important information on the general health and pathologies that effected inhabitants in the town from the period of initial settlement and later. This information may reflect differences in health and medical treatment based on social, cultural, or economic groupings.
Artifacts recovered from graves and their general proximity may also contribute information relating to the social, cultural, and economic characteristics of individuals and groups. Fragments and complete gravestones may contain stylistic traits that represent particular religious, ethnic, or other social groupings. Other characteristics of gravestones may indicate the economic class of individuals. Artifacts related to memorial services or grave offerings can also contribute much of the above information. Taken as a whole, the above information can contribute (continued) NPS Form 1 10-900-2 8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service - National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 8/9 Page 11/1 a wealth of information on the evolution and inhabitants of the Center Cemetery and the town of Worthington. Information obtained through archaeological research may also help fill the documentary void that exists relating to when the cemetery was founded and (end) 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Books Bartlett, Elsie V., A Handbook of Questions and Answers Relating to the History of Worthington, Massachusetts. Burr, Clement F., Notes on Early Settlers from List in Rice's History. 1978. Conwell, Russell H., Acres of Diamonds. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. 1.
Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Foster, Apthorp F., ed., Vital Records of Worthington Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund, 1911. Johnson, Clifton, Historic Hampshire in the Connecticut Valley. Springfield: Milton Bradley Company. (continued) (NPS Form 119-900-1 United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number 9 Page_ 2 Slgis. Hano Cra Nen: Unes Nirl es any sonegani, and it Syrnbdit, 50- Wesleyan University Press, 1999). Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, Historic Cemeteries Preservation Initiative, Preservation Guidelines for Municipally Owned Historic Burial Grounds and Cemeteries.
Boston: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, 2000. Moody, Rev. George Reed, The South Worthington Parish, South Worthington, Massachusetts, 1899-1905. Rice, James C., J. H. Bisbee, and C. K. Brewster, History of the Town of Worthington, From Its First Settlement to 1874. Springfield: Clark W. Bryan & Company, 1874. Western Hampshire Board of Trade, The Western Hampshire Highlands, Massachusetts. Springfield: F. A. Bassette Company, 1912. Wikander, Lawrence E., Terry Wikander, Helen Wikander, Mark Kiley, The Hampshire History: Celebrating 300 Years of Hampshire County Massachusetts. Northampton: Hampshire County Commissioners, 1964. Worthington Historical Society, Papers on the History of Worthington (Out of the Vault, Into the Hands of the People). Easthampton: Pioneer Valley Printing Company, 1983.
Local Government Public Documents Town of Worthington Town Reports, 1886-1965. (continued) (NPS Form 1 10-900-% United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 9 Page 3 Maps & Atlases (Arranged by Date Published) 1795. Jonathan Brewster, Matthew Warner and Jonathan Woodbridge, Plan of the Town of Worthington, created by Selectmen and Committee of Worthington. 1830. Hitchcock Series, Old Hampshire County Town Plans. 1860. H. F. Walling, Atlas of Hampshire County. 1871. 1871. H. F. Walling & O. W. Gray, Official Topographical Atlas of Massachusetts from Astronomical, Trigonometrical and Various Local Services. Stedman, Brown and Lyon, publishers. 1873. F. W. Beers, County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts. F. W.
Beers & Co., publishers, New York, NY. 1922. E. E. Davis, CE, County Roads in Hampshire County. 1923. Arthur G. Capen, Map of Worthington, Massachusetts with the Places of Residence of the First Inhabitants of the Town (drawn from a map of Hampshire 1930. County published in 1856). Town of Worthington, Massachusetts (map enlarged from U. S. Topographic Map, in Worthington Historical Society Collection). 1968. Lois Ashe Brown, Town of Worthington. 1970. Albert J. Platt, Survey of the County Highway from Williamstown to Westfield as it Passes Through Chester. 1981. E. Porter and J. Reagan, Plot Map of East Section of Center Cemetery. 1981. J. H. Eager, D. R. Porter and C. K. Brewster, Appraisal of Lots of New East Part of Center Cemetery. 2000. Assessor's Maps for the Town of Worthington, Map #408.
Other Sources Act of Committee for Disposing of Cemetery Lots (records of the cemetery committee), 1975-1933. "Clan Chronicles, Worthington, 1888" (pictoral book containing photograph of the grave of Anna Randall, d. 1803). (continued) (VPS orm 1 10-90- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 9 Page_ 4 Drinkwater, Robert. "Early Gravestones in Chesterfield, Massachusetts: A Guide to Stonecutters and Their Work" (unpublished paper, 1986). Feakes, Frank. Personal interview, April 29, 2001. Feakes, Marcia. Personal interview, April 29, 2001. List of Soldiers (unpublished list, compiled by the local Boy Scouts, date unknown). Porter, Daniel R., "The Brewsters of Worthington" (unpublished paper, date unknown).
Porter, Daniel R., "Family Life in Early Worthington" (unpublished remarks delivered to the Worthington Historical Society, August 26, 2000). Porter, Daniel R., "The John Watts Story in Worthington" (unpublished paper, date unknown). Porter, Daniel R., "The Porters of Worthington and Cummington" (unpublished paper), 1999. Updated 2000. Porter, Edward. Personal interviews, April 20 and April 29, 2001. Scrapbooks of the Town of Worthington, Massachusetts compiled by Arthur G. Capen. Volumes 1-6. Slater, James A., "The Colonial Burying Grounds of Eastern Connecticut and the Men Who Made Them." Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, Volume XXI, July 1987. "Some Tombstones in Center Cemetery" (unpublished list by unknown writer, Collection of the Worthington Historical Society). (continued) (NPS Porm 1 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service - National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number 9/10 Page_5/1 Town of Worthington, Bicentennial, 1768-1968: Souvenir Program and Historical Brochure. Worthington: Worthington Bicentennial Committee, 1968. Worthington Cemetery Notebook (contains maps and gravestone inventories for the Parker Four Corners and Almon Johnson Road Cemeteries. (end) 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description Town of Worthington Assessor's Map # 408, Lot 74. Boundary Justification The nominated property includes the entire 2.4-acre parcel assembled by the Town of Worthington that is historically associated with Center Cemetery. (end) NPS Form 1 10-900-4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Center Cemetery Continuation Sheet Worthington (Hampshire), MA Section number phote Page1 LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS Photographer: Martha Lyon, Paysage Date: July 2001 #1: #2: #3: #4: The interior of Center Cemetery taken from Sam Hill Road looking southwest through the allee of sugar maple trees. The brownstone and marble L. G. Granger Monument, erected c. 1868. Photograph taken looking east. The marble headstone of Ezra Starkweather, d. 1834. Photograph taken looking east. The Goshen Stone headstone of Jereme Kinne (d. 1777), exhibiting the Hampton Indian motif. Photograph taken looking east.
NPS Form 1 10-800-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section Number Page_ DATA LOCATIONS CENTER CEMETERY WORTHINGTON, HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 2.4 ACRES CEMETERY DATA APPROXIMATE SCALE: 1* = 100 NORTH SAM HILL ROAD B40 -6 -210 - 0 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Center Cemetery CENTER CEMETERY WORTHINGTON, HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS DATA SHEET* Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 Historic Name Perimeter Wall Sugar Maple Allee Circulation System Newcomb Cleveland Ambrose Hanchet Asa Cottrel John Cutler Siphrona Kingman Amanda Tinker Captain James Kelly Ezra Starkweather Esther Starkweather Minerva Meach Charlotte Hubbard Coit Ruth Granger Jereme Kinne Type Landscape Feature Landscape Feature Cart Path Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Monument Headstone Headstone Material Field Stone Plant Turf/Dirt Goshen Stone Goshen Stone Goshen Stone Goshen Stone Goshen Stone Goshen Stone Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Goshen Stone *Data Sheet provides a representative sampling of features of Center Cemetery.
Page 1 of 3 Resource Structure Objects Structure Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Date Unknown Unknown Unknown 1825 1797 1790 1802 1804 1811 1854 1834 1838 1807 1813 c. 1859 1851 1777 Status C C C C C C C C C C C C C C CENTER CEMETERY WORTHINGTON, HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS DATA SHEET Number 18 19 20 Historic Name James Watt i L. G. Granger Hewitt 22 23 24 25 26 27 Kingman Parsons Burr John Kinne 29 30 Anna Kinne Lieut.
Ebenezer Leonard Joseph Marsh Nahum Eager Sarah Eager Elihu Tinker 31 32 33 34 35 John Watts General Jonathan Woodbridge Reverend Jonathan Huntington Sarah Huntington Moses Brewster Type Headstone Monument Monument Monument Monument Monument Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Headstone Material Goshen Stone Brownstone/Marble Marble Brownstone Granite/Marble Granite Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Marble Resource Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Object Date 1774 c. 1868 c. 1840 c. 1882 c. 1883 c.
1880 1811 1805 1813 1838 1805 1809 1816 1777 1808 1780 1790 1809 Status C C C C C C C C C C C C C Page 2 of 3 CENTER CEMETERY WORTHINGTON, HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS DATA SHEET Number 36 Historic Name Brewster 37 38 Porter 39 Alfred Foote Frederick Sargent Huntington Robinson Center Cemetery Type Monument Monument Headstone Monument Monument Cemetery Material Granite Granite Granite Granite Pink Granite Resource Object Object Object Object Object Site Page 3 of 3 Date c. 1878 c. 1907 1965 1888 c.
1923 1774 Status C C UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Center Cemetery NAME : MULTIPLE NAME: STATE & COUNTY:MASSACHUSETTS, Hampshire DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 1/14/04 2/26/04 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: 04000084 2/11/04 2/27/04 REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: PDIL: PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : REJECT 2/26/04 oxTe N N N Tntered in the National Begister RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE TELEPHONE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.
PHOTO#| LENTEK CEMETERU WOKTHINGTON, HAMMPSHIKE COUNTY, NASHACHUKETS NAETHAH.LYON, SULY 2001 INTIKIOK OF CENTER CEMETERY TAREN FROM SAN HIK FIND LOOKING STUTHWEGT THREUGH THE ANEE OF NUKK NANE TREES. ecta Crehl AKELL VHOTOHZ CENTEK UEMETFU WORTHINITON HRLAPEHIRE COUNTY, MAFGACHWETTS PHHOTOURAPHORC: MAKTHAH. WONS, APRIL 2001 BROWNGNONEAND MARBLE L.G.GORANLER MONUNENT, KRELTED C. 1868. ROTOCRATH TAKEN LOOKIND ENT. Haw thes aud ts -ACEED a the THE TONOURAHE RA CEA auho ched .Tuly 22.1S3 k. AD. SO. STiNO CorCvOrs CENTERCENIETERY WORTHINKTON, HAMPKIRE COUNTY, MAFSACAUSETTS PHOTOWZASHER: NARETHAH. MON, APRIL 2001 MAKBLE HEANCHONE OF EZZA CTAKKWEATHER, D.1934. PHOTOGRACHTAKEN LOORING FAT VHOTO#4 CONTER CENETERU WORTHINGGTON, HAMDGHIKE COUNTY, NASHACHUATTS HHATDURATHER: NARETHAH. WyON, JULY 2001 UUAHENGTONE HEATGTONE OF ERENE KINNE (V.ITTT), EXHIBITING THE HANTTON INDAN MOTTE.
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ano 7 56 s5 29 A 21 IBI A ROAD { 45 626 .48 518 13.7ACC2 8.3224 169310237808762 THIS MAP IS FOR ASSESSMENT PURPOSES IT IS NOT VALIO PRODUCED BY FOR LEGAL DESCRIPTION OR CONVEYANCE CARTOGRAPHIC THE HORIZONTAL DATUM IS THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE DIANE cnnenINATEcyeTEM ASSOCIATES, INC. AREA CAICILATEO AREA SURVEYED BLOCK NUMRER MUNICIPAL MAPPING CONSULTANTS COMMON OWNERSHIP POROY E> TTIETOU NEW HAMPSHIRE A3REI OR 1 IEGENO SuRniviSiON LOT NO LINE 10 M..® RIGHT OF DIMENSION SCALED DIMENSION 100 inn'e WETLANDS SC ALE 1 INCH = 400 FEE: METERS RevisED danuary 1,2001 GUARD_RD. ASSESSRSMAR DIAGRAM 402 407/414 WORTHINGTONAoaIs 409 412 MAP NO 408 COMPLETION DATE MARCH Y. 1986 MASSACHIISETTC The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission January 15, 2004 Ms.
Carol Shull RECEIVED 2200 National Register of Historic Places lational Park Servic 201Eve Street. NW gth floc Washington, DC 20005 JAN | 4 NAT. RECIS Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: Center Cemetery, Worthington (Hampshire Co.), MA The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. The owners of the property were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30 to 45 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Sincerely, BetayFredheng Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure Cc: Beverly Smith, Worthington Historical Commission Christopher Powell, Chair, Select Board Martha Lyon - Paysage, Preservation Consultant J.P.
Welch, Worthington Cemetery Commission Jack Millman, Planning Director 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 (617) 727-8470 - Fax: (617) 727-5128 www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
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