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Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery

Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial-era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

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