Quabbin Reservoir Cemetery Photographs, 1928–1945
The new thirty-acre cemetery was built in Ware, Massachusetts, less than three miles from the Quabbin Reservoir Administration Building in Belchertown. Its landscape was designed by Arthur A. Shurcliff, an architect and native of Boston. Beginning in 1927, the MDWSC began a census of the burials in all of the affected cemeteries and photographed each cemetery lot. Of the approximately 7,500 bodies, 945 were relocated to "outside cemeteries."
Quabbin Park Cemetery officially opened on August 25, 1932, although it wasn’t until 1944 when the removals from the former cemeteries were completed. In addition to cemeteries in the four disincorporated towns, there are cemeteries in the towns of Belchertown, New Salem, Pelham, Petersham, and Shutesbury.
Snow Tomb, Snow Cemetery, Lot 19, Petersham, Mass., July 12, 1939: Mrs. Grace T. Adams, Tomb ? Release
Photo Showing Stone of John and Mary Torrance Damaged During Winter, East Half Lot 1758, Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Mass.,
Apr. 15, 1947
Fred Witherell, Woodlawn Cemetery, Old Section, Lot 184, Enfield, Mass., Sept. 20, 1928: Fred Witherell, Q-97
Looking East Over Section 1,
Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Mass.,
Aug. 9, 1938
Emily L. Goddard, Lincoln Cemetery, Stone 14, Petersham, Mass.,
June 8, 1945
William Milsop, Woodlawn Cemetery, New Section, Lot 85, Enfield, Mass., Sept. 7, 1928: William Milsop, Q-227
James Thayer, Dana Center Cemetery, Lot 171, Dana, Mass., June 9, 1937: Chauncey Thayer, Q-1217
Receiving Vault, Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Mass., July 6, 1938
Johnson, Dana Center Cemetery,
Lot 168, Dana, Mass., June 9, 1937: Redford K. Johnson, Q-1224
Mary A. and Francis R. Bruce, Lincoln Cemetery, Stones 5, 6, Petersham, Mass., June 8, 1945
General View of Brown's
Evergreen Cemetery, Dana, Mass., Sept. 16, 1937: Indexed on Acc. 857, Map of Cemetery Locations
Ruth Carter, Hannah (Spring) Carter, Snow Cemetery, Lot 10, Petersham, Mass., July 12, 1939: Lester H. Carter, Release 290
Tablet on East Side Entrance to Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Mass., Sept. 08, 1939
Church Cemetery Tomb, Church Cemetery, Section 2 at Left, Section 1 at Right, Enfield, Mass., Jan. 10, 1938: Indexed on Acc. 857, Cemetery Locations Plan
Quabbin Park Cemetery, Lot Index Plan, Ware, Mass., June 1, 1932
