I was introduced to a bit of Framingham history, located just over the border in Sherborn. Over the weekend I walked the grounds of the Clara Burton Cemetery, a sacred, and a bit eerie place. While I didn’t take many pictures while there, I would recommend anyone wanting to experience a bit of a different kind of history – to head over.
You’ll want to find 22 Perry Rd in Sherborn, which is the Brush Road Burying Ground, and you’ll want to look directly across the street from it, for this smaller cemetery in the woods.
Clara Barton Cemetery is situated across the street from the Reformatory Cemetery and is owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It continues the Reformatory Cemetery’s function as a place of interment for prisoners of the Framingham State Prison which later became MCI Framingham. There’s very few headstones here, and many bear the names of infant children of prisoners.
Rumor is that if you head there in the just before midnight every November 3rd, you can hear a crying baby, supposedly that of baby Hill.
The cemetery is named after Clara Barton of The Red Cross, who ran the as the superintendent for a while in the 1880’s.
READ THE FRAMINGHAM HISTORY CENTER’S – Our Clara Barton Connection
