The NHA cemeteries project has gathered epitaphs and condition information about many of the markers of Nantucket island, and created a database of information that allows searching across cemeteries.
Search the Cemetery Inscriptions Database
The Nantucket Cemeteries
- Founders Burial Ground
- Lost Quaker Cemetery
- Colored Cemetery
- Native American Burial Grounds
- Newtown Cemetery
- New North Cemetery
- Old North Cemetery
- Old Polpis Burial Ground
- Prospect Hill Cemetery
- Quaker Burial Ground
- Quaise Burial Ground
- St. Mary’s Cemetery
- Edward Lewis Memorial Cemetery (Unitarian Cemetery)
Banner image of Nancy S. Folger’s grave marker, Quaker Cemetery. Epitaph: “NANCY S., wife of Mark Folger,
Died May 3 1859, Æ 62.” Photographer Georgen Charnes.