Brookfield Cemetery

A
very
old
graveyard
The Brookfield Cemetery was official established in 1714 but since it has always been the only cemetery in the town it probably was used as a graveyard long before that.
The 43 acre cemetery has about ten thousand graves and many of them are veterans that have fought in the various wars since the early eighteenth century. Since the King Philip Wars of 1675 hit the area hard it’s very possible some of the worn and unmarked graves are causalities of that conflict.
It is a lovely old graveyard with lots of stone walls and an impressively spooky gate that was added in 1873. Not a lot of imposing and ponderous memorials, many here are simple but still interesting and unique.
A wonderful old cemetery and a great part of the history of the area. This parcel of land has been serving the town in it’s own morbid but important way for a long, long time.