Pondville Cemetery

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

Pondville Cemetery is a burying ground on Everett St. in Norfolk, Norfolk County, listed in the National Register in 2014. Its grounds date from around 1750, and interments began in 1757.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A, C and D, with a criteria consideration for cemeteries, and carries local-level significance in art, landscape architecture and social history. The nomination gives its period of significance as about 1750 to 1963, reflecting a burial ground that began accepting interments in 1757.

Physical character

Its monuments are chiefly marble, slate, granite and zinc, including tympanum-style tablets, an urn-and-willow tablet and boulder monuments, set along dry-laid fieldstone walls. A wrought-iron archway was placed over the center driveway around 1941, and a receiving tomb built in 1909 was restored in 2010. A flagpole was installed and a grave rededicated with a bronze marker, both in 1987.

Historical context

The cemetery was enlarged in 1903 by a plot for the Pond Home, and burials tied to the home ran there from 1906 to 1962. Virgil S. Pond offered in 1909 to build a receiving tomb at the cemetery, and in 1910 the corporation voted its thanks to him for the gift.