{"nrhp_refnum":"05000577","name":"Colony Burying Ground, Old","other_names":["Old Colony Burying Ground","Old Cemetery (LIC-251-15)"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"250 S. Main St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Licking County","state":"OH","lat":40.06530481900006,"lon":-82.51979664499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2.852-acre historic cemetery district at 250 South Main Street, Granville, Licking County, Ohio, established in 1805 and holding about 940 gravestones and monuments, the oldest extant stone dating to 1808.","why_significant":"The burying ground preserves a large, largely untouched collection of early 19th-century sandstone and marble gravestones by local carvers such as Rollin Hughes and Manley Whipple. It is also unusually well documented thanks to Charles Webster Bryant's 1886 numbered inscription record. The text does not state the criteria or the full significance argument, as the document is truncated.","narrative":"Old Colony Burying Ground occupies nearly three acres on a hillside at the southern entrance to Granville, Ohio. Laid out in 1805 and expanded northward about 1815, it holds roughly 940 gravestones and monuments, the earliest surviving stone dating to 1808. A central roadway divides the grounds, and a sandstone retaining wall of 1887 and iron gates of 1912 line South Main Street. The cemetery is notable for its carved sandstone and marble markers, including box tombs, urns and lancet-arched stones by Granville carvers Rollin Hughes and Manley Whipple, and large monuments to Lucius Mower and Charles Blanchard. In 1886 local pharmacist Charles Webster Bryant numbered and recorded the visible stones, creating a record that has helped guide later conservation. Burials declined after Maple Grove Cemetery opened in 1863, which left the grounds remarkably intact. Recent seating areas, stone steps and a small information building serve visitors.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Gravestone carvers Rollin Hughes, Manley N. Whipple and H. W. Bragg; DeBow Bros. (monument builders); Henry Hill (1887 retaining wall contractor); John Klauder (landscape architect for seating areas and steps)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery, with visitor seating areas, information boards and a small 1994 building added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.14172-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/05000577.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80003138","name":"Granville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/granville-historic-district-80003138/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985690","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/licking-county/colony-burying-ground-old-05000577/"}