Natick Cemeteries with Revolutionary War Soldiers
Natick's veteran history spans across several local burial grounds. Some of these locations are the final resting places of original 18th-century settlers, while others contain Revolutionary War soldiers who were reinterred years later as the town grew. This guide honors their memory and helps track their final resting places across Natick.
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South Natick Burial Ground | North Cemetery | Praying Indian Burial Ground
South Natick Burial Ground
Established: 1731
Location: Near the intersection of Eliot Street and Union Avenue (behind Eliot Church)
Status: No longer in use
The Natick Indian Proprietors “gifted” the plot to “Rev. Oliver Peabody and the English, for a burial ground forever.”
North Cemetery
(also known as North Natick Cemetery)
Established: 1741
Location: Natick, MA (Formerly part of the "Needham Leg")
Status: No longer in use
This cemetery was established by the Natick Indians for use by white settlers. The land was once part of the “Needham Leg,” a section of West Needham, that was passed back and forth between Natick and Needham until 1797.
Natick Praying Indian Burial Ground
Established: c. 1750
Location: Pond Street
Status: Historical Monument Site
This small plot is all that remains today of one hundred acres originally owned by the Indigenous Proprietors of the Town. In 1900, the Wamsquam Association erected a tablet marking the site. The names of Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War appear on several other tablets located here.
Boden Lane Cemetery
(also known as West Cemetery)
Established: 1815
Location: Boden Lane
Status: No longer in use
Established through a gift of land from William and Kezia Boden. At least a half dozen of Natick’s Revolutionary War soldiers are buried here.
Dell Park Cemetery
Established: 1849, expanded in 1890
Location: Pond Street
Status: Active municipal cemetery with historic section
Old Dell Park Cemetery
The original cemetery grounds were established with the purchase of 12 acres of land from Edward Walcott. It initially belonged to the First Congregational Church until the Town of Natick took ownership and moved it. Among the bodies reinterred here during the town's early growth were a number of Natick's Revolutionary War soldiers.
New Dell Park Cemetery
The cemetery was significantly expanded in 1890 when the town acquired the adjacent Lakeside Cemetery property, creating the larger Dell Park layout that residents and visitors know today.
