Lawrence Street Cemetery

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Lawrence Street Cemetery, also known as the Village Burying Ground, is a historic cemetery on Lawrence Street in Methuen, Massachusetts. It’s Methuen’s third oldest cemetery, founded in 1832 when the town center moved west to Gaunt Square. In the late 19th century, wealthy industrialist Edward Francis Searles built an eight-foot granite wall along the sides facing his estate, and the graves of the Searles family lie there. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.