The Spring Grove Cemetery and Old North Cemetery are located quite close to one another in Hartford's North East Neighborhood.

Spring Grove Cemetery was founded by Stephen Page in 1845 on land that he owned. Situated on 35 acres, many descendants of Hartford's early families and other notables are buried here, including Goodwins, Seymours, Hillyers and Colts. There are also over one hundred Civil War veterans interred at Spring Grove and, before the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch in Hartford was completed in 1885, the Connecticut Chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic held their annual Memorial Day celebration at the cemetery.

Spring Grove is owned by a private association that is funded by a trust set up in 1884. In 2005, Albert Lenox and the board of the Spring Grove Cemetery Association were given an award by the Hartford Preservation Alliance for their efforts in restoring this historic burying ground.

Donations are welcomed. Located at 2053 Main Street. Phone 860-525-8502.

Frederic Edwin Church
b. 1826. d. 1900

Artist who is most well known for painting realistic tropical landscapes. Among his works are "Cotopaxi" (1854), which presently hangs in the New York City Public Libraries Gallery, and "Aegean Sea" (1871) which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Other notables at the Spring Grove Cemetery:

Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney b. 1791 d. 1865
Author, poet and teacher.

Laurent Clerc b.1785 d. 1869
Founder of what is now the American School for the Deaf – the first school for the deaf in the U.S.

Elizabeth Aldrich Pond
Wife of Hartford Trust Company President Charles Pond and namesake of Elizabeth Park in Hartford.

Henry Champion Deming b. 1815. d. 1872
Civil War Union Army Officer; United States Congressman; Mayor of Hartford from 1854 to 1858.

George Abiel Washburn b. 1827. d. 1891
Serving as Major of the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Antietam, where he sustained a severe wound. Subsequently became a Brevet Brigadier General.

William Wallace Eaton b. 1816 d. 1898
Member of the CT state legislature; CT delegate to Democratic National Convention (1864); U.S. Senator from CT (1875-81); U.S. Rep from CT, 1st District (1883-85).

William Henry Jackson
Hartford's first African-American firefighter

For information on others at Spring Grove Cemetery, visit Find-A-Grave and The Political Graveyard.

The Old North Cemetery was established in 1807. A cross-section of 19th century Hartford society is represented here, including Jewish and Italian immigrants, Civil War soldiers and prominent residents.
The cemetery is linked to African American history and is a stop on Connecticut’s Freedom Trail.

Old North Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1998,

Frederick Law Olmsted b. 1822 d. 1903

Leading landscape architect and founder of the American Park movement. Among his notable projects are Central Park in New York City, the Niagara Falls State Reserve and Boston's Emerald Necklace. Although he spent much of his adult life outside of Connecticut, he was born in Hartford and returned here for his final resting place. For more on Frederick Law Olmsted, visit the National Historic Site.

Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
b. 1870 d. 1957

Pastor of Hartford's North Congregational Church, influential theologian, author and namesake for Hartford's Bushnell Park.