Evergreen Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 8 Evergreen St., Medway
When was it listed? August 2021
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100006778 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

138 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Evergreen Cemetery between 2007 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	25
Recreation and ceremony	22
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
28 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
27 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BELLINGHAM
24 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN
16 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	FRANKLIN

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Evergreen Cemetery: 26 past producers, 6 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Holliston Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Castellucci and Sons	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
H E Fletcher	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Milford Pink Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Milford Quarry	Granite	Producer
Simeone Stone Corp	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Bird Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carl A Molinari	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Carl A. Molinari Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Finn Brothers Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Maps showing this location

20 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.

1887 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1921 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Holliston quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rabbit Hill Historic District	0.5 miles	1988
Medway Village Historic District	1.4 miles	2008
Prospect Hill Cemetery	3.2 miles	2006
Ellice School	3.3 miles	2010
Millis Center Historic District	3.8 miles	2007
Oak Grove Farm	3.8 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006778 in Record Group 79.
Norfolk County	All 342 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.