{{short description|Historic cemetery in Massachusetts, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name =Shawsheen Cemetery | nrhp_type = | image = Shawsheen Cemetery, October 2013, Bedford MA.jpg | caption = Shawsheen Cemetery | location = Bedford, Massachusetts | locmapin = Massachusetts#USA | area = {{convert|16.87|acre|ha}} | built = 1849 | architect = | architecture = | added = June 12, 2007 | refnum = 07000547<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> }}
'''Shawsheen Cemetery''' is a historic cemetery on Great Road and Shawsheen Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The cemetery is Bedford's second, opened in 1849 as its Old Burying Ground was filling up. The original ten acres, and a number of smaller additions between 1894 and 1959, were laid out in the rural cemetery style made fashionable in the 19th century. The total size of the cemetery is {{convert|44|acre|ha}}, but not all of this has been developed.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=bed.w|title=NRHP nomination for Shawsheen Cemetery|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|access-date=2014-04-06}}</ref>
The older sections of the cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.<ref name="nris"/>
== Notable burials ==
* Dorothy Carolin Bacon (1902–1998) — American economist and college professor * Ruth Elizabeth Bacon (1908–1985) — American foreign service officer * Alexandra Carlisle (1886–1936) — American actress * Charles H. Holbrow (1935–2023) — American physicist and college professor * Charles Wilson Killam (1871–1961) — American architect, engineer, and professor at Harvard University * Herman H. B. Meyer (1864–1937) — American librarian for the Library of Congress
==See also== * National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Shawsheen Cemetery}} * {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
{{NRHP in Middlesex County, Massachusetts}}
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Category:Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category:Cemeteries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Category:Buildings and structures in Bedford, Massachusetts Category:National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Category:Rural cemeteries Category:1849 establishments in Massachusetts Category:Burials at Shawsheen Cemetery Category:Bedford, Massachusetts Category:Cemeteries established in the 1840s