Maple Street Cemetery

Maple Street Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Adams, Massachusetts
Coordinates
Built	1767
Architect	Sayles, Charles F.
Architectural style	No Style Listed
NRHP Reference #	04000536
Added to NRHP	June 2, 2004

Maple Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Maple Street in Adams, Massachusetts. The 16 acres (6.5 ha) cemetery is Adams' oldest, with its earliest burials dating to 1760. It occupies a prominent place in Adams, with nearby Mount Greylock as a backdrop. Although it began as a burying ground for the community's Quakers, its use was broadened in the 19th century, and a major update of its landscape was implemented in the late 1860s to a design by local civil engineer Charles F. Sayles. During the 1930s the cemetery infrastructure underwent some rehabilitation, and a project of the Works Projects Administration lined the cemetery roadways with locally quarried marble.

The cemetery is home to the listed Quaker Meetinghouse (built 1784), near which are the unmarked graves of Adams' early Quaker settlers. The largest and most elaborate funerary monument is that of the Plunkett family, which owned and operated some of the town's mills. A second cemetery was not laid out in Adams until 1888, when Bellevue Cemetery was established.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkshire County, Massachusetts