PROVIDENCE – The city’s largest public cemetery, which dates to 1700, has new placemaking signs.
Friends of the North Burial Ground and Randall Park unveiled the set of six new signs in a recent ceremony. The signs were created and installed through a partnership with the Providence Parks Department, which maintains the cemetery.
The North Burial Ground, which covers nearly 200 acres, remains an active cemetery but is also home to some of the oldest graves in the state. Among those buried there are Moses Brown (1738-1836), a former slave owner who in 1774 joined the Quakers and led the effort to ban the importation of slaves into Rhode Island. He and his partners were the financiers for mills, including the Slater Mill in Pawtucket. He co-founded Brown University.
Mary MacDonald is a staff writer for the PBN. Contact her at macdonald@pbn.com.
