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Notable Internments Tour

1. Ebenezer Knight Dexter (1773-1824) – Merchant, U.S. Marshal. He bequeathed land to the city that would become Dexter Asylum, a long-standing Providence almshouse. 2. & the Brown Brothers – The graves of three of the famous Brown brothers, Nicholas, John, and Joseph, as well as their ancestor Chad Brown, one of the first settlers of Providence. 3. Stephen Hopkins (1707-1785) – Colonial Governor of , delegate to the , and signer of the Declaration of Independence. 4. Thomas Poynton Ives (1759-1835) – Merchant, partner of Nicholas Brown in Brown & Ives. 5. Samuel Whipple (1645-1710) – The earliest marked burial in the cemetery. 6. Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935) – Mountaineer and adventurer; noted suffragist and speaker; the mountain Cumbre Ana Peck () is named in her honor. 7. (1803-1878) – Poet, transcendentalist, spiritualist, fiancée of Edgar Allan Poe. 8. Horace Mann (1796-1859) – Educator, reformer, abolitionist. 9. Col. William Barton (1748-1831) – Revolutionary War officer who fought in the . Namesake of Fort Barton and Fort Barton Elementary School (Tiverton, RI). 10. Charles Henry Dow (1851-1902) – Co-Founder of Dow Jones & Company; founder of the Wall Street Journal. 11. Kady Brownell (1842-1915) – Born in South Africa, Brownell fought in the Civil War alongside her husband (not interred here, despite his name on the monument), and was the first female member of the Grand Army of the Republic. 12. (1718-1802) – Commodore in Chief of the , Revolutionary War. Brother of Stephen Hopkins. 13. West Burial Ground monument – the last remaining graves in Providence’s West Burial Ground were removed to this location on December 31, 1888. 14. Frank Gildersleeve Appley (1850-1921) – Champion oarsman, famously rowed in an aluminum shell from Pawtucket to Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair. 15. Free Ground Monument – Commemorates the 1964 relocation of graves from the free ground for the construction of I-95. Some of the original free ground remains in its original location. 16. Fred Corey (1855-1912) – Pitcher and Third Baseman for the Providence Grays, Worcester Ruby Legs, and Athletics. Buried in the Free Ground. 17. Jabez Gorham (1792-1869) – Founder of Gorham Manufacturing Company, Rhode Island. 18. Brown Family Mausoleum - on this lot stands the mausoleum holding members of the Brown family, specifically Nicholas Brown III and his descendants. Outside the mausoleum are the graves of (1797-1874), the renowned collector of Americana whose life’s work is now housed in his namesake library on Brown’s campus. A giant obelisk marks the grave of Nicholas Brown II, the benefactor who gave his name to after donating $5,000 in 1805. 19. Thomas Smith Webb (1771-1819) – Author of Freemason’s Monitor, a significant work on freemasonry; Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island; Rhode Island’s most notable mason. 20. Cyrus Butler (1767-1849) – Merchant, builder of Providence Arcade, benefactor of Butler Hospital. 21. (1738-1836) – Quaker, abolitionist, one of the famous “Brown Brothers.” 22. Samuel W. Bridgham (1774-1840) – First mayor of Providence. 23. Stephen Randall Tomb –The remains of were interred herein from 1860 to 1932. 24. Edward M. Bannister (1828-1901) – Notable African American painter. He is interred here with his wife Christiana Carteaux Bannister (1819-1902), founder of the Home for Aged Colored Women, and his nephew William Bannister (died 1873, moved here from Swan Point Cemetery). The headstone was designed by Bannister’s friends and fellow artists of the Providence Art Club. 25. Col. Israel Angell (1740-1832) – Colonel in the Revolutionary War. 26. Memorial to French Allies in the – Erected in 1881 by a committee led by Frederick Denison, honoring the numerous French soldiers of the American Revolution interred beneath it.