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Eastwood Cemetery (Additional Documentation)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Old Common-Wilder Road, Lancaster
  • When was it listed? May 2024
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 100010282 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1887 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Eastwood Cemetery (Additional Documentation), surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Eastwood Cemetery (Additional Documentation), surveyed 1887

Fires near this property

110 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Eastwood Cemetery (Additional Documentation) between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,714 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning51
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDEVENS
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Eastwood Cemetery (Additional Documentation): 11 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Berlin Stone Co QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Gneiss QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sterling ProspectIron, ZincProspect
Bates Sand and Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Berin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Berlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Berlin Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bolton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Casaceli TruckingSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Casaceli Trucking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Lancaster Gazette1828 to 1830

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.

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
Lancaster Industrial School for Girls0.3 miles1976
Atherton Bridge1.0 miles1979
Old Settlers' Burying Ground1.1 miles2019
Middle Cemetery1.2 miles2019
Nathaniel Thayer Estate1.3 miles1976
First Church of Christ, Lancaster1.4 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100010282 in Record Group 79.
Worcester CountyAll 686 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.