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Prince Hall Cemetery

Also known as Prince Hall Masonic Burial Ground , Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery

Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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Get directions Gardner Street
Arlington, Massachusetts 02474 United States

Coordinates: 42.41021, -71.13543
www.arlingtonhistorical.org/visitor-guide/prince-hall-cemetery/
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The Prince Hall Cemetery on Gardner Street in Arlington is steeped in American history. The Masonic Lodge was founded by Prince Hall in Boston in 1776. In 1864, Grand Master William B. Kendall of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge deeded the Gardner Street parcel he had purchased in 1856 to his lodge's Masonic Order.

Black Americans needed a place to bury their loved ones. The property was to be put in trust to be used exclusively as a Masonic burial ground to be known as Prince Hall Cemetery. Records indicate it was in use until about 1897 when for unknown reasons, it fell into disuse and as time passed it was forgotten.

The Prince Hall Grand Lodge located in Dorchester and the Arlington Historical Society subsequently formed an organization named the Prince Hall Mystic Arlington Cemetery Association which is responsible for its upkeep.

In 1998, the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as ARL.802 Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery.

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