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Foxborough Cemeteries
There are more than ten cemeteries in Foxborough. They range from small family burying grounds to community cemeteries covering many acres. There is even a pet cemetery in town.
Cemeteries & Some List Of Interments
- State Hospital Cemetery
- A picture of an old numbered marker
- Foxborough State Hospital Cemetery
- Foxborough State Hospital Cemetery
- Foxborough State Hospital Cemetery
- Foxborough State Hospital Cemetery
If you don't know the location of the cemeteries, please visit USGS GNIS and use the search/find feature.
State: Massachusetts
County: Norfolk
Feature Class: Cemetery
State Hospital Cemetery
American Insane Asylum History: Giving Names To Numbered Graves*
Other Cemetery Restoration Efforts In Massachusetts
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"Foxboro State Hospital has two cemeteries, which buried approximately 1,100 former DMH patients in its cemeteries, but they are not on the hospital grounds. They are about 1/8 mile from the hospital. The names and corresponding grave numbers are lost, but the stones do have their DMH number on the back of each numbered marker, so that may help eventually."
Other Cemetery Restoration Efforts In Massachusetts
"This is a closed facility. There are two cemeteries for Foxboro State Hospital and they are not on the grounds. The cemeteries are about an 1/8 of a mile from the hospital on Cross Street. One is close to the road and the other is about 125 yards up into the woods. The names and corresponding grave numbers have been lost. There may be 1,100 former DMH clients buried in the two cemeteries. When researching these cemeteries Pat Deegan noticed that each marker has two sets of numbers. The first list the order in which the burial took place. The second number, on the back of the stone, seems to be a DMH client identification number. It would be relatively easy to reconstruct a list of who is buried based on these numbers. A group would have to get special permission from Commissioner Sudders to match numbers with names but once that was done, a complete list could be reconstructed."As of August 2011 all known gravesites have been moved.*
Some Other Places To Look For More Cemetery Information
(Burials, Transcriptions, Restoration, Photographs, Meanings, Etc.)- A Very Grave Matter
- Interment.net
- USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - Norfolk County
- Veteran's Administration Headstone Program
- Start A New Survey
- Links to resources on cemetery history and preservation
- Start A New Survey
- BillionGraves | Cemetery & Headstone Records
- AHGP Cemetery Transcription and Photo Project
- A Grave Addiction
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Foxborough's History And Historical Sites
- History / Home
- Cemeteries In Town
- Genealogy Information
- Historic Buildings
- Maps
- Military Service & Records
- People & Families