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Grove Street Cemetery
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
The Egyptian Revival entry gateway
Location:	New Haven, Connecticut
Area:	18 acres
Built/Founded:	1796
Architect:	Augur, Hezekiah; Austin, Henry
Architectural style(s):	Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival
Designated as NHL:	February 16, 2000[1]
Added to NRHP:	August 08, 1997[2]
NRHP Reference#:	97000830
Governing body:	Private

Grove Street Cemetery or Grove Street Burial Ground in New Haven, Connecticut is located in the center of the Yale University campus. It was organized in 1796 as the New Haven Burying Ground and incorporated in October 1797 to replace the crowded burial ground on the New Haven Green. It was one of the earliest burial grounds to be laid out with plots permanently owned by individual families. Many Yale presidents and New Haven politicians are buried here, as is Roger Sherman, the first mayor of New Haven and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution.

Initially consisting of six acres (24,000 m²), it has been expanded to nearly 18 acres (73,000 m²). The entrance on Grove Street is a brownstone Egyptian Revival gateway, designed by Henry Austin, and built in 1845. The lintel of the gateway is inscribed "The Dead Shall Be Raised." The concluding period has been called the most eloquent and sublime piece of punctuation in stone. The quotation is a reference to 1 Corinthians 52: "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed." The oft-recounted (and likely apocryphal) response of many presidents of Yale is, in substance, "They certainly will be, if Yale needs the property."

Immediately inside the gate is a Victorian chapel, now used as an office. The perimeter of the cemetery was surrounded by an eight foot (2.4 m) stone wall in 1848-9.

The gravestones from the New Haven Green (but not the remains) were moved here for preservation in 1821 and are displayed against the walls of the cemetery.

The Grove Street Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Secretary of the Interior in 2000.^[1],^[3],^[4]

It is managed by Camco Cemetery Management.

• James Rowland Angell (1869-1949)—President of Yale University
• Kanichi Asakawa (1873-1948)—historian.
• Jehudi Ashmun (1794-1828)—religious leader, and social reformer, agent of the African Colonization Society
• Hezekiah Augur (1791-1858)—wood carver, sculptor and inventor.
• Henry Austin (1804-1891)—architect, designed the gate of the cemetery, Dwight Hall at Yale, and several mansions on Hillhouse Avenue.
• Delia Salter Bacon (1811-1859)—originator of the proposition that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare
• Leonard Bacon (1802-1881) clergyman and abolitionist
• Charles Montague Bakewell (1867-1957)—politician
• Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863)—Governor of Connecticut
• Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851)—Mayor of New Haven
• Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927)—Governor of Connecticut
• John Bassett (1652-1714) captain of the trainband; deputy to the General Court (legislature) of Connecticut Colony
• Lyman Beecher (1775-1865)—abolitionist, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher
• Nathan Beers (1763-1861)—paymaster to Connecticut troops in the American Revolution
• Hiram Bingham I (1789-1863)—Hawaiian missionary and clergyman.
• James Bishop (d. 1691)—was Secretary, Lieutenant Governor and Deputy Governor of New Haven Jurisdiction.
• Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1886)—manufacturer and inventor of the stone crusher. His brother, Philos, invented the corkscrew.
• William Whiting Boardman (1794-1871)—politician.
• Edward Gaylord Bourne (1860-1908)—historian and educator. Leader in the American Historical Association.
• Phiness Bradley (1745-1797)—soldier. Captain, commander of the artillery defending New Haven, July 5, 1779
• William H. Brewer (1828-1910)—scientist. Helped found the Yale Forestry School; co-founder of the list Agricultural Experiment Station with S. W. Johnson.
• James Brewster (1788-1866)—industrialist and railroad promoter.
• Kingman Brewster, Jr., (1919-1988)—President of Yale University
• William Bristol (1779-1836)—Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
• Walter Camp -- football coach known as the "Father of American Football".
• Leverett Candee (1795-1863)—Industrialist. First practical use of Goodyear's vulcanization of rubber
• Jedediah Chapman (d. 1863)—Civil War Union Army Officer killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
• Thomas Clap (1703-1767)—Rector & President of Yale College
• David Daggett (1764-1851)—United States Senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
• Napthali Daggett (1727-1780)—clergyman, President pro tempore of Yale College.
• George E. Day (1814-1905)—Bible revisor
• Jeremiah Day (1773-1868)—President of Yale University.
• Amos Doolittle (1754-1832)—silversmith, engraver of Revolutionary scenes. "The Revere of Connecticut."
• Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817)—President of Yale University.
• Timothy Dwight V (1829-1916)—President of Yale University.
• Amos Beebe Eaton (1806-1877)—Civil War Union Army Brigadier General.
• Theophilus Eaton (1590-1657)—a founder of New Haven, first Governor of New Haven.
• Henry W. Edwards (1779-1847)—U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut.
• Pierpont Edwards (1750-1826)—Delegate to the Continental Congress.
• Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1631)—scholar, writer and missionary executive. Editor of the ‘’Panoplist’’ and the ‘’Missionary Herald’’.
• Henry Farnham (1836-1917)—prominent New Haven merchant and philanthropist.
• Ludwig Felber (1903-1937)—died in the crash of the Hindenburg airship.
• George Peck Fisher (1827-1902)—historian and theologian
• Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863)—naval officer who ended the rum ration in the United States Navy.
• A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989)—baseball commissioner, President of Yale University.
• Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr. (1790-1861)—professor at Yale Divinity School who first spoke with the mutineers of the Amistad.
• Josiah Willard Gibbs, Jr. (1839-1903)—scientist, "Father of Thermodynamics"
• Chauncey Goodrich (1790-1860)—Yale professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Charge.
• Elizur Goodrich (1761-1849)—mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
• Charles Goodyear (1800-1860)—inventor of vulcanized rubber.
• Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906-1963)—President of Yale University.
• Arthur Twining Hadley (1857-1930)—Dean of Yale Graduate School when women were first admitted. President of Yale University.
• Henry Baldwin Harrison (1821-1901)—Governor of Connecticut
• James Hillhouse (1754-1832)— real estate developer, politician, and treasurer of Yale. Namesake of Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven.
• J. Aspinwal Hodge (1861-1916)—Presbyterian minister in early New Haven, Connecticut.
• James A. Hoppin (1820-1906)—professor of Religion and Art.
• Leverett Hubbard 1725-1795)—soldier, physician and apothecary.
• David Humphreys (1752-1818)—Aide de Camp to General George Washington
• Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821-1903)—Governor of Connecticut
• Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819- 1903)—United States Representative from Connecticut.
• Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789-1872)—United States Minister to Russia, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
• Eli Ives (1779-1861)—professor of Medicine
• Chauncey Jerome (1793-1868)—mayor of New Haven, clockmaker
• Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796-1881)—portrait painter and engraver.
• Samuel W. Johnson (1839-1909)—Yale professor, co-founder of the Agricultural Experiment Station Movement with William H. Brewer
• James Kingsley (1778-1852)—professor of Hebrew, Greek and Ecclesiastical History at Yale.
• John Gamble Kirkwood (1907-1959)—chemist.
• Elias Loomis (1811-1889)—mathematician and astronomer.
• Daniel Lyman (1718-1788)—Surveyor, Deputy to the General Court, Court Referee, Justice of the Peace and caretaker of the State's public records.
• Samuel Mansfield (1717-1775) – first sheriff of New Haven
• Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899)—paleontologist.
• Henry Czar Merwin (1839-1863)—Civil War Union Army Officer killed at the Battle of Gettysburg
• Glenn Miller (Alton G. Miller) cenotaph -- (1904-1944) Jazz bandleader, trombonist.
• Dr. Timothy Mix (1711-1779)—Colonial soldier who died on a British prison ship.
• Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826)—clergy, "Father of American Geography". Father of Samuel F. B. Morse.
• Theodore T. Munger (1830-1910)—clergyman.
• Hubert Anson Newton (1830-1896)—meteorologist and mathematician.
• George Henry Nettleton (1874-1959)—author.
• Denison Olmsted (1791-1859)—Professor of Medicine and Natural Philosophy at Yale. One of the first to see Halley's Comet in 1835.
• Lars Onsager (1903-1976)—Chemist. Nobel Laurate.
• Timothy Pitkin (1766-1847)—politician, United States Representative from Connecticut.
• Noah Porter (1811-1892)—clergyman, President of Yale College
• Charles Seymour (1885-1963)—President of Yale University
• Joseph Earl Sheffield (1793-1882)—merchant, founder of Sheffield Scientific School.
• Roger Sherman (1721-1793)— important founding father, the only person to have signed all four basic documents of American sovereignty, the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.
• Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864)—pioneer in scientific education.
• Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816-1885)—Yale chemist and geologist. First suggested some practical uses for petroleum.
• Aaron Skinner (1800-1858)—civic figure and supervisor of improvements to Grove Street Cemetery
• Nathan Smith (1770-1835)—United States Senator from Connecticut.
• Ezra Stiles (1727-1795)—President of Yale University.
• Henry Randolph Storrs (1787-1837)—jurist.
• Titus Street (1786-1842)—businessman and civic figure
• Alfred Howe Terry (1827- 1890)—Civil War Union Army Major General.
• Ithiel Town (1784-June 12, 1844)—architect and civil engineer. Inventor of the lattice truss bridge.
• Martha Townsend (1753-1797)—first interment in Grove Street Cemetery
• William Kneeland Townsend (1849-1907)—jurist
• Henry H. Townshend (1874-1953)—proprietor and historian of Grove Street Cemetery.
• Timothy Trowbridge (1631-1734)—merchant, soldier and politician.

• Alexander C. Twining (1801-1884)—inventor of first practical artificial ice system.
• Noah Webster (1758-1843)—lexicographer, dictionary publisher.
• Nathan Whiting—soldier, Colonel in the Seven Years' War.
• Eli Whitney (1765- 1825)—inventor of the cotton gin.
• Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861)—Major, United States Army. First New Haven victim of the Civil War.
• Melancthon Taylor Woolsey (1717-1758)—colonel in the Colonial Army.
• Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1812-1889)—abolitionist, President of Yale.
• David Wooster (1711-1777)—Buried in Danbury, Connecticut but memorialized at Grove Street Cemetery.^[5] Major General, 7th in rank below Washington. Killed in action.
• Mary Clabaugh Wright (1917-1970)—educator and historian, first woman to become a full professor at Yale.

• Grove Street Cemetery home site

• Grove Street Cemetery is at coordinates 41°18′51″N 72°55′38″W / 41.314031, -72.927246Coordinates: 41°18′51″N 72°55′38″W / 41.314031, -72.927246