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The cemetery opened in 1841 and was planned on the model of a rural cemetery.  With the relocation of remains from the city’s earliest burying ground, the cemetery became the final resting place for many of Springfield’s 17th and 18th century pioneer settlers.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsHistory[edit]Chapel and columbarium[edit]Soldier’s Rest, Civil War monument[edit]Notable burials[edit]Gallery[edit]Location[edit]References[edit]History[edit]The Springfield Cemetery was designed in the landscaped tradition of the rural cemetery, evoking a pastoral, garden environment in an urban setting.  The cemetery is located on a plot of land once owned by Martha Ferre and known as \u2018Martha\u2019s Dingle\u2019.[1] A dingle is a small wooded valley, a dell.[2]The land was purchased from Alexander Bliss on May 28, 1841 for the purpose of establishing the cemetery.  The first burial occurred on September 6, 1841,[3] Early in its history the cemetery was also known as \u2018Peabody Cemetery\u2019, in recognizer of one of its founders, Rev. William Peabody, a local Unitarian minister. In 1848 the remains of Springfield’s earliest European settlers were transferred to the cemetery from the Old Burying Ground by the Connecticut River. Relocated remains included those of Mary Holyoke, daughter of William Pynchon, known as the founder of Springfield.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Chapel and columbarium[edit]The Dorcas Chapin Chapel was constructed in 1885 with funds donated by the wife of Chester W. Chapin.  Designed in the English Gothic style, the chapel contains stained glass windows created by the L.C. Tiffany Company and provides a seating capacity for fifty.[4]Soldier’s Rest, Civil War monument[edit]Soldier’s Rest is a Civil War monument that was dedicated in 1877 and depicts a Union private at rest.  The funds used to commission the monument were raised by women of the city who, in 1862, had developed the Soldier\u2019s Rest Association to support the needs of soldiers, returning veterans and their families.  The statue stands above the Soldiers plot, with graves both at its base and more below a descending slope. At least 200 Civil War soldiers are buried in the cemetery.[5][6]Notable burials[edit]George Ashmun, U.S. Congressman, member of the Massachusetts State Legislature, lawyerJames Barnes, Brigidier General, Union Army, Civil WarMilton Bradley, businessman, considered a pioneer of the board game industry, founder of the Milton Bradley CompanyAndrew Symmes Bryant, Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipientThornton Waldo Burgess, conservationist, author, journalistWilliam Barron Calhoun, U.S. Congressman from MassachusettsCalvin Clifford Chaffee, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, ardent slavery abolitionistChester W. Chapin, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, businessmanThomas Dwight, U.S. Congressman from MassachusettsChester Harding, portrait painter of prominent 19th century AmericansJosiah Gilbert Holland, novelist, poet and newspaper editorSamuel Knox, U.S. Congressman from MissouriF. O. Matthiessen, Harvard professor, literary critic, author of \u2019\u2019American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman\u2019\u2019Horace A. Moses, industrialist and philanthropist, co-founder of Junior AchievementEverett Peabody, Colonel, Union Army, Civil WarWilliam Rice, Methodist Episcopal minister, Springfield City LibrarianJames Wolfe Ripley, Brigadier General, Union Army, Civil WarCharles Louis Seeger, Jr., musicologist, composer, university instructor, father of Pete SeegerRuth Crawford Seeger, singer, songwriter, political activist, stepmother of Pete SeegerHorace Smith, inventor, industrialistElizabeth Towne, writer, publisherMark Trafton, U.S. Congressman from MassachusettsGallery[edit]Location[edit]The main entrance to the Springfield Cemetery is located at 171 Maple Street, Springfield, MAReferences[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/springfield-cemetery-springfield-massachusetts-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Springfield Cemetery (Springfield, Massachusetts) – Wikipedia"}}]}]