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Mount Wollaston Cemetery 20 Sea Street

Quincy, MA 02169 QuincyMA.gov617-376-1295

Main Office Open Monday – Friday 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

�e grounds are open daily dawn to dusk.

�e City of Quincy also operates and maintains the following cemeteries:

Hall Cemetery, 65 Crescent StreetHancock Cemetery, 1307 Hancock Street

Pine Hill Cemetery, 815 Willard StreetSailor’s Home Cemetery, Fenno StreetSnug Harbor Cemetery, Palmer Street

©2016 �omas M. GalvinPhotography by Julia Himmel

Map Key

1 �e Elks Rest

2 Mayor Charles A. Ross

3 Jonathan Samuel Swingle

4 �e Spargo Celtic cross

5 National A.F. of L. Leader

6 �e Walker Monument

7 George Hunter’s Spheres

8 �e Henry Faxon Lot

9 �e Hardwick Family

q �e King Granite Ball

w Hultman’s Granite Anchor

e Mayor John L. Miller

r William Field Granite Pioneer

t �e Graham Pink Obelisk

y �e Robertson Roman Temple

u Hon. �omas S. Burgin

i Hon. James R. McIntyre

o A War MemorialsB Police MemorialC Fire Memorial

p Medal of Honor Recipient

a Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

s Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

d Burgess Monument

f Charles Francis Adams III (aka 2nd)

g �e Josiah Quincy Lots

h John Quincy Adams II

j Snug Harbor Lot

k �e Adams Cenotaph

l �e Halvosa Cross

; Chief Goodhue Monument

z Domenico d’Allessandro Laborers Union Leader

x John Horrigan

c Wealthy Dow Lot

World War II

Vietnam WarKorean WarFunded in part by the City of Quincy and

the Massachusetts O�ce of Travel and Tourism.

War Memorials

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Spanish American War

Civil War

Adams Cenotaph

Mount Wollaston CemeteryA Self-Guided Tour

Original 1855 gated entrance on Sea Street.

the cemetery was doubled in size. Numerous expansions followed until 1922; when the present 52 acres was reached. In 1934-36, Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers installed the Quincy Granite wall that surrounds the cemetery.

By 1960, all the lots were sold and the city opened its new Pine Hill Cemetery in West Quincy. Today, there are over 44,000 people interred at the Mount Wollaston Cemetery in approximately 15,000 family lots with about 100,000 monuments and markers. Additional burials and/or monuments are permitted only in existing lots.

Monument Styles, Art and Architecture Between 1850 and 1930, the heydays of cemetery art, many prominent Quincy sculptors and architects, as well as skilled stone cutters, designed funeral monuments. �ree styles were popular: Classical Revival (see the Robertson Roman temple monument y), Egyptian Revival (see the Graham obelisk t), and the Medieval Revival delicate detailed gothic style (see the Spargo Celtic cross 4). As you explore Mount Wollaston you will see many of the �rst two styles as well as countless one-of-a-kind monuments.

In particular you will notice the hundreds of monuments made of the famous grey Quincy Granite; most with machine polished surfaces that highlight the even texture of the crystals and the contrast with the range of grey and blue shades of this very hard and unique stone. Quincy Granite’s renowned qualities made Quincy the Granite Capital of America for a hundred years.

�ere are also many monuments here made of stone imported from around the country and the world, but the most popular granites used by Quincy monument manu-facturers were Quincy, of course, and those from Westerly, Rhode Island and Barre, Vermont.

Many of the monuments in the older sections of the cemetery are oversized compared to the monuments allowed here since the 1930’s. Space limitations and other consider-ations have resulted in standardized monument materials, sizes and shapes.

Welcome to Mount Wollaston CemeterySince 1855, Quincy citizens from all walks of life have been interred here; some with simple grave markers, others with impressive monuments. Each has a story and together serve as an outdoor museum of the people who lived here. In 1984, this property’s 52 acres including �ve buildings, nine structures, and 53 objects were added to the National Register of Historic Places. �is self guided tour, based on highlights of guided walking tours con-ducted by the City of Quincy’s Historian Tom Galvin, explores over 150 years of Quincy History including the Adams and Quincy families, and is renowned for its sculpture garden of granite memorials. �e tour begins inside the Greenleaf Street gate and will take you on a circuitous route ending near the start.

About Mount Wollaston Cemetery �e story of Mount Wollaston Cemetery begins with the establishment of a trading post near here in 1625 by Captain Richard Wollaston an English sea captain. Soon a�er, the Town of Boston annexed the 50 square miles of what became known as Mount Wollaston and divided it into land grants for its citizens. �is cemetery land was part of a large grant in 1634 to Edmund Quincy and William Coddington who was an o�cial and treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. However, religious beliefs forced Coddington to leave the Colony in 1637 and along with Anne Hutchinson he moved south to Rhode Island. He sold half of his portion of the property and bequeathed the other half to the citizens of the community for revenue-generating farmland. In 1640, Mount Wollaston became known as Braintree from which today’s Quincy separated in 1792.

For almost 400 years this land has continued to belong to the citizens. In the 1850’s, a�er the town’s original Hancock Cemetery was deemed �lled, 25 acres of the farmland were set aside and twelve of those acres were laid out for an urban garden cemetery. It was consecrated on November 1, 1855.

It was laid out with 577 lots, 300 square feet each, bounded by the present Cyprus and Elm Avenues. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams (a) bought the �rst lots for �ve dollars. Within 20 years all the lots were sold and

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1 �e Elks Rest�e Quincy Lodge of Elks, No. 943, B.P.O.E. erected this eight-foot life size bronze elk when the cemetery was expanded here in 1930. From its perch on a Dedham grano -diorite boulder, it guards the graves of 18 members of the lodge buried in four lots on this corner. �e boulder was found in the Blue Hills Reservation on Mount Hancock; which was named for its one-time owner, Quincy born John Hancock. Plymouth Rock and the Rosetta Stone are also grano-diorite; which like Quincy granite is an igneous rock. Frederick W. Tirrell the founder and �rst exalted ruler of the Quincy Elks is buried in another section of Mt. Wollaston Cemetery; in an unmarked grave.

2 Mayor Charles A. RossQuincy Mayor Charles A. Ross (1881-1956) was born in Scotland and came to America as an infant. He le� school a�er the eighth grade and became an apprentice piano maker. Later, he had a company that sold pianos along with insurance and real estate. His Quincy political career began in 1912 as a Ward Councilor and continued for almost 40 years until 1950. He served 13 years as a City Councilor and nine years as Mayor (1933-35 & 43-49). He ran for Mayor eight times and was elected �ve. He was ousted from the Mayor’s o�ce in 1935 when the courts ruled he overspent his allowable campaign funds. He was re-elected eight years later. His legacy is the �lling of Quincy’s abandoned granite quarries along Quarry Street with city refuse, and later, securing the downtown property for the Parkingway. �is monument is polished Barre Vermont granite.

3 Jonathan Samuel Swingle “�e Extra Dark Man”

Hoping to escape working in the coal mines of his nativeOhio, Jonathan Samuel Swingle (1856-1929) arrived in Quincy in 1886 with 20 dollars and a help wanted ad for a bookkeeper at a granite manufacturer in his pocket. Four decades later, he owned 50 acres of West Quincy’s hills with four of the best granite quarries in the city. He was known nationally as the standard-bearer of Quincy granite constantly touting the beauty and durability of his quarry’s extra-dark “Peerless Granite”. �is monument is from his namesake Swingles Quarry; Quincy’s deepest at 350 feet and the last to close in 1963. �e granite in the ball at City Hall was donated by him and came from the same quarry.

4 �e Spargo Celtic crossWilliam T. Spargo (1841-1915) was an organizer and the �rst President of the Granite Cutters Union. He became a prominent Quincy granite manufacturer. A native of England where he learned the granite cutting trade, he immigrated to America in 1871 working quarries on the Maine coast until coming to Quincy in 1881. In 1888, he bought a monument manufacturing company on Liberty Street where he and then his sons produced excellent monuments like this Celtic cross. It is made of granite from a quarry he owned in Westerly, Rhode Island. Standing over nine feet tall this cross is engraved with a variety of symbols and Celtic knot patterns which strongly resembles the famous St. Martin’s Cross in Iona, Scotland. William Spargo served his community as a Quincy City Councilor for four terms and as a member of Public Burial Places Board of Managers.

5 National A.F. of L. LeaderJames Duncan (1857-1928), a leader in the United States labor movement, apprenticed to be a granite cutter in his native Aberdeen, Scotland. When he immigrated to the United States in 1880, he soon became involved in the Granite Cutters Union and then in national union movements. He was elected the second Vice President of the American Federation of Labor in 1894 and Executive Secretary of the Granite Cutters Union in 1895. He held both positions for over 30 years until his death in 1928. He moved the Granite Cutters Union headquarters to Quincy in 1900; where it remained for 85 years.

6 �e Walker Monument�is excellent tablet monument of polished Quincy Granite includes two classic elements in a contemporary form. �e round ornament at the top is an adaptation from the crowning piece of �e Stele. Below is a variation of the festoon used on Roman sacri�cial vessels. In 1887, Joseph A. Walker (1853-1935) organized the Aberdeen Granite Co.; monument manufacturers on Arthur Street in West Quincy. He named his company a�er his native home Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1925, he was also President of the Quincy Granite Manufacturers Association and as such presented their gi� of the Granite Ball at City Hall to Mayor Perley Barbour during the Quincy Tercentennial Celebration.

7 George Hunter’s SpheresWorking at his father’s quarries in Nova Scotia, George Hunter (1858-1944) acquired stone cutting and leadership skills as a young man. When he came to Quincy in 1885, he began a ��y year career superintending several large Granite quarrying and granite contracting operations. His unique gravestone is topped with polished spheres of the three granites most o�en used by Quincy’s monument manufacturers; le� to right: Westerly, RI; Quincy, MA; and Barre, VT.

8 �e Henry Faxon LotAmong Quincy’s earliest settlers, Job Faxon and his wife arrived here in 1640. Over 50 of their descendants are interred throughout this cemetery, but herein lie two of the most notable: Henry Hardwick Faxon (1823-1905) and his son Henry Monroe Faxon (1864-1949). Henry H. amassed extensive real estate holdings in Quincy, Boston and beyond and was a renowned activist in the Temperance movement. Henry M. expanded and managed the properties as well as several other important Quincy businesses including the Quincy Electric Light Co. and the Granite Railway Co. �eir legacy is their gi�s of Faxon Park and Faxon Field to the people of Quincy.

9 �e Hardwick FamilyMost of Quincy’s granite quarry operators came from outside of Quincy. A notable exception was the C.H. Hardwick Co. begun in 1848 by Charles Hardwick. Jr. (1794-1857) and managed by his family for 75 years. �eir quarry was just o� Quarry Street opposite the end of Smith Street and their stone cutting plant was across the street from the quarry on the site of today’s Sons of Italy Lodge. �e quarry yielded a prized dark blue and lighter blue-grey shades of granite that helped the family become one of Quincy’s wealthiest in the 19th century. While Charles, Jr. is not here, his sons and 20 of his family members are interred in four lots on this corner.

Henry H. Faxon

q�e King Granite Ball�eophilus King (1844-1935), who in 1929 built the iconic Granite Trust building in Quincy Center, served as the bank’s President and then Chairman for over 40 years. He was also President of the Quincy Quarries Company, and owner of Hitchcock Quarry; the source of this ten-ton polished Quincy Granite ball. A prominent businessman, citizen and philanthropist, his legacy is the King Family Fund; which to this day makes dozens of annual charitable donations.

w Hultman’s Granite AnchorA massive Quincy granite boulder with a large bas relief anchor marks the grave of English sea Captain Eugene N. Hultman (died 1900). A�er a long and colorful career at sea, he forsook salt water and settled here in Quincy. He built an estate on Washington Street, assimilated into the community and served as a City Councilor. �is monument placed here by his family in 1901 was cut by McGilvray & Jones Company of Liberty Street.

“Ours is an unending love, higher than the heights above, deeper than the depths beneath, lasting ever, e’en through death.” �is poetic inscription on the base of the monument is quoted from a verse in a hymn book which Mr. and Mrs. King saw the �rst time they went to church a�er they were engaged.

e Mayor John L. MillerAt the young age of 16, John L. Miller (1854-1914) immigrated to Quincy from Canada, mastered the granite cutting trade and became President of the Granite Cutters Union when he was just 24. During a labor dispute resulting in a long lockout of quarry workers, he organized a quarrying company and hired the locked out quarrymen. He ran that company for seven years and later founded two larger highly suc-cessful monument companies. He served as President of the Granite Manufacturers Association and was a Quincy School Committeeman for nine years. He was elected Mayor in 1914 and died in o�ce only nine months later at the age of sixty. �e monument is made of pink granite from Westerly, Rhode Island.

r William Field Granite PioneerA true Quincy granite industry pioneer, William Field (1807-1891) worked for Solomon Willard in 1826 as the foreman of the Bunker Hill Quarry in West Quincy. In 1839, he established a business with Eleazer Frederick (1806-1878); who had worked for Willard on the Bunker Hill Monument at Charlestown. �e Frederick & Field Quarry and Granite Contractors Co. on Quarry Street was in business until 1890.

t �e Graham Obelisk�is 33 foot obelisk made of Malnati’s Golden Pink Granite from Niantic, Connecticut marks the grave of John R. Graham (1847-1915) and his family. Born in Ireland, Graham served in the Union Army until the end of the Civil War; when he settled in Quincy Point to learn shoe manufacturing. From humble beginnings, he went on to become the foremost custom manufacturer of �ne boots and shoes in the country. He also became interested in electric power and electric trolleys and, in 1888, was Founder and President of the Quincy Street Railway Company; which built an extensive electric trolley network in

Quincy and on to the South Shore. He became one of the biggest men in Massachusetts street railway circles. A�er his railway lines were consolidated into the Old Colony System, he went on to Bangor, Maine where he became known as a business ‘Wizard’ in both street railway and banking circles. All the while, he owned a thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky and accumulated extensive real estate holdings in both Maine and Quincy.

y �e Robertson Roman TempleA native of New Hampshire, Joseph W. Robertson (1813-1891) was one of Quincy’s wealthiest and most prominent citizens in the 19th century when Quincy was still a town. He held several town o�ces including Selectman and School Committeeman, Surveyor of Highways, and Representative to the General Court. His 40 acre estate on Adams Street, near Lakin Square, included one of the �nest farms in the county. He was largely interested in �nancial institutions; being the largest stockholder in a number of Quincy’s �rst banks. �is is the largest Quincy Granite monument in the cemetery. A skillfully carved two-tiered Roman Temple, it is an out-standing example of Quincy granite cutters cra�smanship.

u Hon. �omas S. BurginTom Burgin’s (1905-1986) nearly �ve decades in political public service were exceeded only by an even longer com-mitment to community service. He was actively involved and an avid supporter of a wide variety of community organizations ranging from the Boy Scouts, Kiwanis and the Chamber of Commerce. First elected to public o�ce at age 22 he was elected Mayor of Quincy at age 33. He also served terms as a state legislator and state senator. All the while he managed his insurance business for over 40 years. Quincy’s Burgin Parkway was named in his honor in 1983.

i Hon. James R. McIntyreJames R. McIntyre (1930-1984) was a young decorated Korean War veteran when he entered the Quincy politicalarena as a liberal Democrat. He faced entrenched con-servative political power groups at both the local and state levels. He won his �rst city-wide election for a City Council seat at age 25; coming in third in a �eld of 25 can-didates. A�er losing his �rst Mayoral campaign, he was then elected Mayor for three consecutive terms; while also serving as a State Representative. He was subsequently elected State Senator. Widely respected as a gentleman by his constituents and his legislative peers, he was highly regarded for his intellect, compassion and Irish wit. His in�uence on Beacon Hill led to the extension of the MBTA to Quincy and his becoming known as the “Father of the Quincy MBTA” which is perhaps his most enduring legacy.

Police Memorial Firemen’s Memorial

o A War Memorials Six war memorial monuments are in the Veteran’s section of the cemetery along Sea Street.

• �e Civil War monument is a 35 foot Quincy granite obelisk with bronze tablets listing the Quincy men who died in the war.

• �e WWI monument is a Quincy granite boulder with a bronze tablet designed by renowned Quincy sculptor Bruce Wilder Saville.

• �e WWII monument - “To commemorate the men and women of Quincy who honored her in WWII” - includes a raised platform used for Memorial Day services.

• �e Spanish-American War monument is a polished Quincy granite Maltese Cross the symbol of the war.

• �e Korean War polished Quincy granite monument is “In Grateful Tribute to the men of Quincy who died in the Korean War.”

• �e Vietnam War monument lists the Quincy men killed or missing in action.

o B Police Memorial �is monument was erected in 1938 by the Police Relief Association. �e Quincy Police Mutual Aid Association commemorates Police Memorial Sunday here annually on the �rst Sunday in June to honor deceased members of the Quincy Police Department.

o C Firemen’s Memorial In 1928, the Permanent Firemen’s Association appointed a committee to invite the Granite Manufacturers Associ-ation to submit designs and estimates for a memorial to be placed upon the Firemen’s lot. Florence McAuli�e, an architect, was chosen to do the design with Lewis White of West Quincy to supply the granite. Fire�ghter Memorial Sunday is held here annually on the second Sunday in June to honor deceased members of the Quincy Fire Department.

p Medal of Honor RecipientSecond Lieutenant Ralph Talbot (1897-1918), a United States Marine Corps aviator, was a posthumorous recipient of the Medal of Honor for “exceptionally meritorious service and extraordinary heroism” while serving in France during World War I. He is the only medal of Honor recipient in this cemetery.

a Charles Francis Adams, Sr. Brownstone Table TombCharles Francis Adams (1807-1886), son of President John Quincy Adams, was the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James under President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. He is credited by historians for changing the course of the war and its outcome by stopping the British from building iron-clad ships for the Confederacy; even though it was the source of cotton for England’s textile industry. He was the �rst to buy a lot in this cemetery for �ve dollars. Table tombs are rare. His epitaph is on the top of the table.

s Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Slate Slab TombstoneCharles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915), grandson of President John Quincy Adams, was a Colonel in the Union Army and later a Railroad Regulator and Executive. A noted historian, he wrote many historic works including an in depth account of Quincy’s history. He was instrumental in establishing the Blue Hills Reservation and he used his own funds to buy the land for Merrymount Park; which he gave to the citizens of Quincy. Unhappy with its changing demographics, he reluctantly le� his beloved Quincy in 1893.

d Burgess MonumentFrank Burgess (1860-1929), an indus-trialist, civic leader and yachtsman, was the owner of the Boston Gear Works for over 40 years. In 1880, he began making gears in a small machine shop in Boston; which he later bought and in 1906 moved to North Quincy. By the time of his death he had built the Boston Gear Works to be the largest manufacturer of stock mechanical gears in the world. Living near the ocean he became an avid yachtsman and was the founder and �rst Commodore of the Wollaston Yacht Club. He was also a Director, President and a major benefactor of the Quincy YMCA; whose Camp Burgess on Cape Cod bears his name. A�er 85 years in Quincy, Boston Gear Works moved to North Carolina and is still making gears 130 years a�er its founding.

f Charles Francis Adams III (aka 2nd) Slate Upright MonumentSon of John Quincy Adams, II, this Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954) was born as the 2nd, but being the third of the name history alternately refers to him as CFA III as this gravestone is marked. He was the fourth Mayor of Quincy, a well-known yachtsman, winner of the America’s Cup in 1920, Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover, Treasurer of Harvard College for 35 years and President of the Harvard Board of Overseers. His son Charles Francis. Adams, Jr. (aka CFA, IV) was the �rst President of the Raytheon Company.

g �e Josiah Quincy Lots Descendants of the old and distinguished family of Quincy’s, there were six consecutive generations of Josiah Quincy’s over more than a two hundred year period. �ree would become Mayor of Boston. �e �rst of the six; Colonel Josiah Quincy, Sr. (1710-1784) and the second Josiah Quincy, Jr. (1744-1775) ‘the Patriot’ are buried at Quincy’s Hancock Cemetery. �e third Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) the ‘Great Mayor’ of Boston (1823-28) and President of Harvard College is buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Herein lie the fourth, ��h and sixth Josiah Quincy’s:

Fourth: Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) Mayor of Boston (1846-48).Retired to Wollaston and built a mansion that became the Eastern Nazarene College in 1919.

Fi�h: Josiah Philips Quincy (1829-1910) lawyer and poet. For many years he ran a dairy farm at his father’s estate in Wollaston.

Sixth: Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) Mayor of Boston (1896-99), lawyer and Massachusetts politician.

Eleven members of the Quincy family are buried here in three lots including: Eliza Susan Quincy (1799-1884) daughter of the “Great Mayor” and noted diarist of the Quincy family.

Built in 1770, the Quincy House at 20 Muirhead Street is a historic house museum owned and operated by Historic New England.

h John Quincy Adams II, Slate Slab Tombstone�e namesake of his grandfather, the sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams II (1833-1894) and his wife Fanny Crowninshield (1840-1911) were the last to live on the Mount Wollaston Farm. A�er their deaths, the farm property was sold and subdivid-ed. Originally part of William Coddington’s colonial land grant in the 1630’s, the farm property stayed intact for over 250 years by inheritance through the Tyng, Quincy, and Adams families. Today, the land is the Merrymount, Adams Shore and Post Island neighborhoods of Quincy and a part of this cemetery.

j Snug Harbor LotHerein lies 65 retired Mariners, who in their later years made their home at the Sailor’s Snug Harbor rest home; which from 1856-1950 was situated about two miles southerly from here in Germantown. �e small marble grave-stones bear only the name and age of the deceased. �is lot was set aside at the rear of the original bounds of the Mt. Wollaston Cemetery and when �lled in 1883 a new separate cemetery was established nearer the rest home in Germantown.

k �e Adams Cenotaph�e remains of �omas Boylston Adams (1772-1832), the youngest son of John and Abigail Adams, together with the remains of his wife Ann Harrod (1774-1846) were moved here in the 1870’s from the Adams family crypt at Hancock Cemetery by their daughter Elizabeth. She had this marble cenotaph erected to her brothers and was later also buried here. �e three broken columns on the cenotaph represent the shortened lives of her three brothers, John Adams’ grandsons, who lost their lives while serving their country.

l �e Halvosa Cross�is unique and moving monument marks the grave of Philip Halvosa (1869-1915) and his family. While a young stonecutter in Quincy, he decided to move to Vermont to hone his journalism skills; which led him to later become an in�uential voice in Boston as the labor editor of the Boston American newspa-per. Also assigned the City Hall beat, he became a close friend and con�dant of Boston Mayor James Michael Curley.

; Chief Goodhue Monument�is Quincy Granite monument was erected by the citizens of this city in 1927 to honor the revered Quincy Police Chief Alfred W. Goodhue (1875-1926); who died while still in o�ce. He was a member of the police department for 28 years; six as its head. He was highly respected by all the people of Quincy as well as his peers throughout the Commonwealth as President of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association. �e city came to a virtual standstill on the morning of his funeral, as hundreds lined the streets and participated in the funeral procession. �ree Quincy Mayors spoke at his grave-side service. A grassroots city-wide fundraising e�ort paid for this monument and a commemorative tablet at police headquarters.

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z Domenico d’Allessandro Laborers Union LeaderDomenico d’ Allessandro (1867-1926) immigrated to America from Italy in 1898 settling in Boston. Looking for work he was outraged when he learned about the abusive padrone system that lured Italian immigrants into years of indentured servitude in this country. He organized a local union of Italian laborers who were building the Boston subway system and got them a signi�cant wage increase. He was soon hired by the International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers Union as an organizer and within two years was elected General President in 1908. He grew the union into a North American powerhouse and served as its president until his death in 1926. He moved the union headquarters to Quincy; where it remained until it moved to Washington D.C. in 1940. Its name today is the Laborers International Union of North America, but is commonly known as the Laborers Union. �is hammered Quincy Granite monument was built by the E. Settimelli Co. of South Quincy.

x John Horrigan, SculptorJohn Horrigan (1864-1939) came to Quincy from a small Vermont town in 1887. As a youth, he was interested in modeling, sculpturing and granite cutting. He was able to hone those skills working with masters in the Quincy stone sheds; until he started his own company. His works in bronze and granite are in all corners of the United States. His most famous work was the Titanic Monument in Washington D.C.. Locally, he is known for the Robert Burns statue in Quincy on Burgin Parkway, the bronze Civil War Soldier Monument in Holbrook and the reconstructed Myles Standish Monument in Duxbury. His inclination was towards religious themes. �e panels on this Celtic cross depict four of the sorrowful mysteries and is thought to be modeled a�er the famous Muiredach High Cross in lreland. Also buried here is his son Gerald, who was himself a well-known sculptor.

c Wealthy Dow Lot�e �rst person buried here at Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Wealthy Dow (1819-1855) died during childbirth on May 6, 1855. Upon her death, her remains were held at the Hancock Cemetery’s receiving vault until this cemetery opened in May 1856. Her husband Everett Dow (1818-1866) and their baby, who only lived eleven months, are also buried here. �e Dow’s graves are not marked, but the lot has a monument for Benjamin Watson and his wife who are also buried here.

the cemetery was doubled in size. Numerous expansions followed until 1922; when the present 52 acres was reached. In 1934-36, Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers installed the Quincy Granite wall that surrounds the cemetery.

By 1960, all the lots were sold and the city opened its new Pine Hill Cemetery in West Quincy. Today, there are over 44,000 people interred at the Mount Wollaston Cemetery in approximately 15,000 family lots with about 100,000 monuments and markers. Additional burials and/or monuments are permitted only in existing lots.

Monument Styles, Art and Architecture Between 1850 and 1930, the heydays of cemetery art, many prominent Quincy sculptors and architects, as well as skilled stone cutters, designed funeral monuments. �ree styles were popular: Classical Revival (see the Robertson Roman temple monument y), Egyptian Revival (see the Graham obelisk t), and the Medieval Revival delicate detailed gothic style (see the Spargo Celtic cross 4). As you explore Mount Wollaston you will see many of the �rst two styles as well as countless one-of-a-kind monuments.

In particular you will notice the hundreds of monuments made of the famous grey Quincy Granite; most with machine polished surfaces that highlight the even texture of the crystals and the contrast with the range of grey and blue shades of this very hard and unique stone. Quincy Granite’s renowned qualities made Quincy the Granite Capital of America for a hundred years.

�ere are also many monuments here made of stone imported from around the country and the world, but the most popular granites used by Quincy monument manu-facturers were Quincy, of course, and those from Westerly, Rhode Island and Barre, Vermont.

Many of the monuments in the older sections of the cemetery are oversized compared to the monuments allowed here since the 1930’s. Space limitations and other consider-ations have resulted in standardized monument materials, sizes and shapes.

Welcome to Mount Wollaston CemeterySince 1855, Quincy citizens from all walks of life have been interred here; some with simple grave markers, others with impressive monuments. Each has a story and together serve as an outdoor museum of the people who lived here. In 1984, this property’s 52 acres including �ve buildings, nine structures, and 53 objects were added to the National Register of Historic Places. �is self guided tour, based on highlights of guided walking tours con-ducted by the City of Quincy’s Historian Tom Galvin, explores over 150 years of Quincy History including the Adams and Quincy families, and is renowned for its sculpture garden of granite memorials. �e tour begins inside the Greenleaf Street gate and will take you on a circuitous route ending near the start.

About Mount Wollaston Cemetery �e story of Mount Wollaston Cemetery begins with the establishment of a trading post near here in 1625 by Captain Richard Wollaston an English sea captain. Soon a�er, the Town of Boston annexed the 50 square miles of what became known as Mount Wollaston and divided it into land grants for its citizens. �is cemetery land was part of a large grant in 1634 to Edmund Quincy and William Coddington who was an o�cial and treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. However, religious beliefs forced Coddington to leave the Colony in 1637 and along with Anne Hutchinson he moved south to Rhode Island. He sold half of his portion of the property and bequeathed the other half to the citizens of the community for revenue-generating farmland. In 1640, Mount Wollaston became known as Braintree from which today’s Quincy separated in 1792.

For almost 400 years this land has continued to belong to the citizens. In the 1850’s, a�er the town’s original Hancock Cemetery was deemed �lled, 25 acres of the farmland were set aside and twelve of those acres were laid out for an urban garden cemetery. It was consecrated on November 1, 1855.

It was laid out with 577 lots, 300 square feet each, bounded by the present Cyprus and Elm Avenues. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams (a) bought the �rst lots for �ve dollars. Within 20 years all the lots were sold and

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Mount Wollaston Cemetery 20 Sea Street

Quincy, MA 02169 QuincyMA.gov617-376-1295

Main Office Open Monday – Friday 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

�e grounds are open daily dawn to dusk.

�e City of Quincy also operates and maintains the following cemeteries:

Hall Cemetery, 65 Crescent StreetHancock Cemetery, 1307 Hancock Street

Pine Hill Cemetery, 815 Willard StreetSailor’s Home Cemetery, Fenno StreetSnug Harbor Cemetery, Palmer Street

©2016 �omas M. GalvinPhotography by Julia Himmel

Map Key

1 �e Elks Rest

2 Mayor Charles A. Ross

3 Jonathan Samuel Swingle

4 �e Spargo Celtic cross

5 National A.F. of L. Leader

6 �e Walker Monument

7 George Hunter’s Spheres

8 �e Henry Faxon Lot

9 �e Hardwick Family

q �e King Granite Ball

w Hultman’s Granite Anchor

e Mayor John L. Miller

r William Field Granite Pioneer

t �e Graham Pink Obelisk

y �e Robertson Roman Temple

u Hon. �omas S. Burgin

i Hon. James R. McIntyre

o A War MemorialsB Police MemorialC Fire Memorial

p Medal of Honor Recipient

a Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

s Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

d Burgess Monument

f Charles Francis Adams III (aka 2nd)

g �e Josiah Quincy Lots

h John Quincy Adams II

j Snug Harbor Lot

k �e Adams Cenotaph

l �e Halvosa Cross

; Chief Goodhue Monument

z Domenico d’Allessandro Laborers Union Leader

x John Horrigan

c Wealthy Dow Lot

World War II

Vietnam WarKorean WarFunded in part by the City of Quincy and

the Massachusetts O�ce of Travel and Tourism.

War Memorials

World War I

Spanish American War

Civil War

Adams Cenotaph

Mount Wollaston CemeteryA Self-Guided Tour

Original 1855 gated entrance on Sea Street.

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