Walnut Grove Cemetery

{{short description|Historic cemetery in Massachusetts, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Walnut Grove Cemetery

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| image = Walnut Grove Cemetery.jpg

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| location = Methuen, Massachusetts

| coordinates = {{coord|42|43|23|N|71|11|27|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Massachusetts#USA

| area =

| built = 1853

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| added = January 20, 1984

| mpsub = Methuen MRA

| refnum = 84002444{{NRISref|2008a}}

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Walnut Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Grove and Railroads Streets in Methuen, Massachusetts. The still active cemetery sits on {{convert|14|acre|ha}} and is privately funded with a board of directors. The cemetery was established in 1853, and was laid out in the then-popular rural cemetery style. The Tenney Memorial Chapel given by the Daniel G. Tenney in 1927 as a memorial to his parents Charles H. Tenney and Fannie Haseltine (Gleason) Tenney.{{cite web|url=https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=met.801|title=NRHP nomination for Walnut Grove Cemetery|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|access-date=2014-01-05}} The chapel was designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury. The earliest burial is estimated to be about 1850; whereas the number of burials before 1960 is unknown, there have been 896 burials since 1960.

File:Walnut Grove Cemetery1.jpg

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.