Common Burial Ground and Island Cemetery (Newport, Rhode Island) | place with historical importance

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Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery, (established first as the Willow Cemetery in 1847), are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Streets in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.

The Common Burial Ground dates to the 17th century. It features an unparalleled collection of colonial era headstones including the largest number of colonial African American headstones in the country.

The Island Cemetery is a private cemetery started in the middle 19th century. Many members of Newport's most prominent families have been buried there over the years.