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      • Swan Point Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Established in 1846 on a 60-acre (0.24 km2) plot of land, it has approximately 40,000 interments.


      History


      The cemetery was first organized under the Swan Point Cemetery Company, with a board of trustees. In 1858, a new charter was developed to make the cemetery administration non-profit, and it was taken over by a group known as the Proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery. In 1886, landscape architect H. W. S. Cleveland was hired to redesign the area. It is a cemetery park with its design inspired by the landscape of the first rural garden cemetery in the United States, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
      Among the first to make use of a tract of land within the cemetery was the First Congregational Society (now First Unitarian Society). They moved several interments from older plots in Providence to Swan Point. Over the years additional land acquisition has expanded the cemetery to 200 acres (0.81 km2), and is still open to new interments today.
      The Swan Point Cemetery is widely considered to be the most prominent cemetery in Rhode Island due to the number of well known citizens of the state buried there. There are more governors, senators and congressmen buried there than any other cemetery in Rhode Island.
      Swan Point Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is one of the two largest cemeteries in Providence with the other one being the North Burial Ground.


      Notable interments



      Swan Point has the burials of many notable Rhode Island figures:

      Rachel Blodgett Adams, 1921 Ph.D., mathematician
      David Aldrich, American artist
      Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, grandfather of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller
      Richard Steere Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, son of Nelson W. Aldrich
      Henry B. Anthony, Governor of Rhode Island, and President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
      Lemuel H. Arnold, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Rhode Island
      Richard Arnold, Union army general
      Sullivan Ballou, state politician, Civil War officer killed in action at the Battle of Bull Run, whose love letter to his wife was featured in Ken Burns's The Civil War
      David L. Barnes, U.S. District judge, litigant in West v. Barnes
      Bathsheba A. Benedict, (1809–1897), abolitionist and philanthropist, and benefactor of Benedict College
      Augustus Osborn Bourn (1834–1925), Businessman and politician, Governor of Rhode Island 1883–1885
      Charles R. Brayton, Civil War officer, Postmaster of Providence and long time Republican political boss
      Ambrose Burnside, Major General in the Civil War, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator
      Adin Ballou Capron, U.S. Congressman
      Malcolm Greene Chace (1875–1955), industrialist, hockey innovator, and amateur tennis player
      Malcolm Greene Chace Jr., (1904–1996) chairman of Berkshire Hathaway during the 1960s
      Malcolm Greene Chace III (1934–2011), board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway 1992–2007
      George Coby (1883 - 1967), Georgian/American industrialist, chemist and philanthropist. Inventor of first electrical Christmas tree lights, waterproof concrete and construction grade glass bricks.
      George Henry Corliss, inventor of the Corliss steam engine
      Helen Metcalf Danforth (1887–1984) university president.
      Jane Anthony Davis, American painter
      Thomas Davis, U.S. Congressman
      Thomas Wilson Dorr, Political reformer, revolutionary and Governor of Rhode Island
      Sarah Elizabeth Doyle, Educator and reformer.
      Thomas Arthur Doyle, long-serving mayor of Providence
      Elisha Dyer, Governor of Rhode Island
      Elisha Dyer Jr., Governor of Rhode Island, Mayor of Providence
      Benjamin Tucker Eames, U.S. Congressman
      C. M. Eddy Jr., author
      Theodore Foster, U.S. Senator
      Albert Gallup, U.S. Congressman
      Lucius F. C. Garvin, Governor of Rhode Island
      Darius Goff, Pawtucket businessman and textile mill owner.
      Daniel L. D. Granger, U.S. Congressman
      Theodore F. Green, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator
      William S. Hayward, Mayor of Providence
      Robert Henri, American painter and teacher
      William Warner Hoppin, Governor of Rhode Island
      Charles Tillinghast James, U.S. Senator
      Thomas Allen Jenckes, U.S. Congressman
      William Jones, Governor of Rhode Island
      Herbert W. Ladd, Governor of Rhode Island
      Benedict Lapham, industrialist, philanthropist
      Oscar Lapham, U.S. Congressman
      Charles W. Lippitt, Governor of Rhode Island
      Frederick Lippitt, Philanthropist
      Henry Lippitt, Governor of Rhode Island
      Henry Frederick Lippitt, U.S. Senator
      Alfred Henry Littlefield, Governor of Rhode Island
      H. P. Lovecraft, American author
      Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf (1830–1895), founder and director of a university.
      Jesse Houghton Metcalf, U.S. Senator
      Seth Padelford, Governor of Rhode Island
      Charles H. Page, U.S. Congressman
      Vahram Papazyan, Olympic runner
      Whipple Van Buren Phillips, businessman
      Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke (1854–1931), university president.
      D.W. Reeves (1838–1900), bandleader known as "father of band music in America"
      Elisha Hunt Rhodes, Union Civil War veteran featured prominently in Ken Burns's The Civil War
      Horatio Rogers Jr., Attorney General of Rhode Island and Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice
      James Y. Smith, Mayor of Providence and Governor of Rhode Island
      William Sprague III, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator
      William Sprague IV, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator
      Margaret Bingham Stillwell, bibliographer and librarian
      Alfred Stone, Providence architect
      Royal C. Taft, Governor of Rhode Island
      George William Whitaker (1840–1916), the "Dean of Providence Painters"


      See also


      National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island
      List of cemeteries in Rhode Island


      References




      External links



      Swan Point Cemetery official website
      U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Swan Point Cemetery
      Swan Point Cemetery at Find a Grave

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