Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Burying Ground (The) (Wolfville)
Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- cemetery
- Year built
- 1763
- Decade built
- 1760-1769
- Cultural association
- New England Planter, Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 19 February 1990
- Civic address
- 494 Main Street
- Community
- Wolfville
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.09140, -64.36454
- File number
- Prov_file_117
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it contains stones carved by both "the Horton Carver" who worked from c. 1783 to 1793 and also "the second Horton Carver" whose carvings date from 1798 to 1805, and it is one of the most distinctive landmarks in Wolfville.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Burying Ground include:
- random-rubble stone wall with a wrought iron gate entrance;
- mature trees that separate the cemetery from the street and nearby intersection;
- original and historic grave stones and monuments, with their surviving inscriptions;
- grass-covered interment areas, and separate family burial plots enclosed with stone pillars and iron links.
Nearby in the register
- Acadia Cinema Buildingcinemaunder 1 mi
- DeWolf Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Randall Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Starr's Point Cemeterycemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.