Quabbin Park Cemetery
Fun Facts about this Cemetery
The Quabbin Park Cemetery is located in Ware, Massachusetts. It's most famous for being the resting spot for those buried in towns that were eliminated for the Quabbin Reservoir.
Fun Facts
Quabbin Park Cemetery was developed in 1931-32 to house 7,613 graves from the disincorporated towns of Greenwich, Dana, Prescott, and Enfield, after taking 81.,000 acres of land to create an enormous reservoir for Boston.
The graves were moved from 34 cemeteries in the four towns.
One Indian gravesite was not moved as the locals couldn't properly remove the graves as many sites were unmarked.
7,613 graves were moved from 34 cemeteries scattered throughout eight towns.
Various war memories that use to be in town centers of Greenwich, Dana, Prescott, and Enfield are now located in the cemetery. The cemetery has become a memorial to those towns.
One of the Ware locals told me - years ago - that the bodies were not placed at the gravesites. Instead, all the bodies were placed in a crypt that you see as you drive into the cemetery.