{"nrhp_refnum":"09000716","name":"Tyringham Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Church Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tyringham","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.244403082000076,"lon":-73.32277649799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Tyringham Cemetery is a 3.67-acre town burial ground on the west side of Church Road in Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with approximately 800 stone markers dating from 1797 to the present.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the cemetery as a well-preserved record of rural New England gravestone design from the late 18th century through the 20th century, including Neoclassical marble tablets, urns and obelisks. It also holds an unusually large group of fourteen white bronze (zinc) monuments and marks the site of the town's first meetinghouse. It further documents the families, farmers and manufacturers who shaped the Hop Brook valley.","narrative":"Tyringham Cemetery occupies 3.67 acres on Church Road at the edge of the village center, overlooking the Hop Brook valley. Roughly 800 stone markers record more than 1,300 residents, with burials from 1797 to the present. A horseshoe-shaped driveway divides the grounds, and a late 19th-century iron fence with cast-iron bow and dart details runs along three boundaries. The oldest section holds marble tablets whose carving moves from angel heads and pinwheels to urn-and-willow motifs, plain rectilinear lettering, arched tops and carved lambs for children. Larger urn and obelisk monuments mark prominent families such as the Garfields, Joneses and Hales. Fourteen white bronze monuments, no two alike, are unusual for a rural cemetery. The first meetinghouse, built in 1779 and removed after 1844, stood somewhere within the grounds, though its exact location is undocumented. The cemetery is valued as a record of local gravestone craft and community history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a cemetery; a south section added in 1956 holds more recent burials, and an adjacent parcel has been acquired for future graves.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.28435-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/7943/63794344/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09000716.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000716/e5cbec61c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000716/e5cbec61c9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cemetery,_Tyringham_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cemetery,_Tyringham_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794344","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyringham_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902185"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/tyringham-cemetery-09000716/"}