Located on Maple Avenue at Benton Street in the Barry Square Neighborhood, Old South is the city's second oldest cemetery. The land was once an apple orchard and, in the 1700's, was part of the Benton family farm. In 1801, the city purchased the parcel to create a second burying ground as Center Burying Ground had become filled. Old South was listed on the State Register of Historic Places in 2001.

A neighborhood group has undertaken the effort to restore Old South. You may read more about it in an article by Kevin Flood that was published Nov. 26, 2000, in the Connecticut Weekly section of The New York Times.

Some notables buried here are Thomas Seymour, the first mayor of Hartford, and his wife, Mary Ledyard Seymour, whose brother Colonel William Ledyard was the "Hero of Fort Griswold" in 1781. Hannah Bunce Watson Hudson, the first female publisher of the Hartford Courant is also buried in Old South.

For a list of names (in PDF format) of those buried at Old South, click here. For more information on Old South, visit the Connecticut Gravestone Network.