Address: East Hampton Road / SR 66
Contemporary Name: Marlboro Cemetery
Historic Name: Marlboro Cemetery
Present Use: Cemetery
Historic Use: Cemetery
Date constructed: Mid 19th century
Materials: Schist, brownstone, marble, granite
Size: 3.88 acres
Description: (Exterior) Marlboro Cemetery has upwards of 500 markers, including a dozen or more marble and brownstone obelisks. The stones are arranged in north-south rows, perpendicular to East Hampton Road. Memorials to the west generally date from the 19th century, those to the east from the 20th/late 20th century. The majority of the stones in the western section are segmentally topped, from the mid 19th century. The range of dates for the historic monuments is wide, from 1817 for an example in marble which carries the year 1815 to a large polished-granite sarcophagus of 1893.
Significance: While Marlboro Cemetery is newer than Century Cemetery, there is much overlap in the dates on the monuments. Some of the overlap is occasioned by the fact that interments were moved to Marlboro from Fawn Brook Cemetery on the southeast corner of South Main Street and Kellogg Road a the time that burying ground was essentially destroyed. Marlboro is larger, and has more late 20th century stones than Century. Both have good examples of monuments created in a variety of materials and artistic treatments representative of current practice and taste at time they were erected.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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