Shawsheen Cemetery

	Shawsheen Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Shawsheen Cemetery
Location	Bedford, Massachusetts
Area	16.87 acres (6.83 ha)
Built	1849
NRHP reference No.	07000547
Added to NRHP	June 12, 2007

Shawsheen Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Great Road and Shawsheen Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The cemetery is Bedford's second, opened in 1849 as its Old Burying Ground was filling up. The original ten acres, and a number of smaller additions between 1894 and 1959, were laid out in the rural cemetery style made fashionable in the 19th century. The total size of the cemetery is 44 acres (18 ha), but not all of this has been developed.^[2]

The older sections of the cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.^[1]

Notable burials

Dorothy Carolin Bacon (1902–1998) — American economist and college professor
Ruth Elizabeth Bacon (1908–1985) — American foreign service officer
Alexandra Carlisle (1886–1936) — American actress
Charles H. Holbrow (1935–2023) — American physicist and college professor
Charles Wilson Killam (1871–1961) — American architect, engineer, and professor at Harvard University
Herman H. B. Meyer (1864–1937) — American librarian for the Library of Congress