Riverside Cemetery
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Riverside Cemetery

North Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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Records indicate that the Riverside Cemetery was originally the MacIntire family cemetery. Phillip MacIntire was born in Argylle, Scotland about 1630 and came to Mass Bay Colony as a young man in 1648. He married in 1666 and came to North Reading (or the North Parish of Reading) in the 1680s. The MacIntire family cemetery later became part of the larger Riverside Cemetery.



The size of this cemetery and the fact that it has remained in constant use since at least the eighteenth century, make it difficult to synopsize a social history. According to the original minutes of the Riverside Cemetery in the archive records in the Town Hall, the cemetery was founded in 1872. The cemetery obviously existed well before that, however the official name and incorporation appear to date from the 1870s.



The cemetery sits on 29.51 acres. It has been in use since the eighteenth century.



The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as NRE.802 Riverside Cemetery.



This cemetery is referred to as GR3 Riverside Cemetery, North Reading in the "Vital Records of Reading Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."







Records indicate that the Riverside Cemetery was originally the MacIntire family cemetery. Phillip MacIntire was born in Argylle, Scotland about 1630 and came to Mass Bay Colony as a young man in 1648. He married in 1666 and came to North Reading (or the North Parish of Reading) in the 1680s. The MacIntire family cemetery later became part of the larger Riverside Cemetery.



The size of this cemetery and the fact that it has remained in constant use since at least the eighteenth century, make it difficult to synopsize a social history. According to the original minutes of the Riverside Cemetery in the archive records in the Town Hall, the cemetery was founded in 1872. The cemetery obviously existed well before that, however the official name and incorporation appear to date from the 1870s.



The cemetery sits on 29.51 acres. It has been in use since the eighteenth century.



The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as NRE.802 Riverside Cemetery.



This cemetery is referred to as GR3 Riverside Cemetery, North Reading in the "Vital Records of Reading Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."







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