Old Colony Burying Ground, 1805

Old Colony Burying Ground, 1805 (HM4OI)

Location: Granville, OH 43023 Licking County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 3.95', W 82° 31.209'

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Granville, Ohio, was settled in 1805 by the Licking Company, a group formed in Granville, Massachusetts, and Granby Connecticut, for the purpose of emigrating west. The Old Colony Burying Ground was defined on the first town plat of Granville in 1905. Many of Granville's pioneers are interred within this ground, and the cemetery retains its original form and most of its westward facing rows of sandstone and marble gravestones. The early settlers buried here helped lay out this town and determined the appearance and development of the village as it is today. The first burial, the infant son of Ethan Bancroft, was in April 1806. The oldest extant gravestone is dated 1808. Eighteen veterans of the Revolutionary war, thirty-nine from the War of 1812, and sixteen Civil war veterans rest here along with ministers, farmers, industrialists, physicians, young mothers, children, and other citizens of Granville.

The Old Colony Burying Ground has many signed and masterfully carved monuments and gravestones that provide a history of gravestone motifs between 1808 and 1880. Found within this ground are excellent examples of the work of local carvers and sculptors, including Thomas and Rollin Hughes, Manley Whipple, and the DeBow brothers. The early markers are of locally quarried sandstone, while many of the later ones are of marble, which was shipped to Granville via the Granville Feeder from the Ohio and Erie Canal. In 1886, Charles Webster Bryant recorded and numbered the location and epitaphs of all visible gravestones, providing important historic information no longer visible today. The cemetery has been called the Old Colony Burying Ground since 1912 when the wrought-iron entrance gates were erected by the Granville Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Old Colony Burying Ground was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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HM NumberHM4OI
Series This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series
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Marker Number21-45
Year Placed2006
Placed ByThe Granville Historical Society and The Ohio Historical Society
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Date Added Monday, October 6th, 2014 at 7:28pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 370362 N 4436171
Decimal Degrees40.06583333, -82.52015000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 3.95', W 82° 31.209'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 3' 57.00" N, 82° 31' 12.54" W
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Area Code(s)740
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 200-298 OH-661, Granville OH 43023, US
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