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Photograph of East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 605 Main St., Williamstown
  • When was it listed? September 2000
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 00001086 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

20 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel between 2015 and 2018, burning about 284 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 May 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 May 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresVermont Division of ForestryPOWNAL
11 May 2015Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined272 acresAppalachian National Scenic TrailCLARKSBURG FIRE (MA)
28 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North Adams Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerStratabound
North Adams Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Downal Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hart Construction CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harwood D Moore Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Simonds Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

21 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Boston Finishing Works0.2 miles2016
US Post Office-Williamstown Main0.4 miles1986
Mill Village Historic District0.7 miles1983
Williamstown Rail Yard and Station Historic District0.9 miles1994
William B. Sherman Farm1.3 miles1985
Eber Sherman Farm1.4 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001086 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkshire CountyAll 183 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.