Milton Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 211 Centre Street in Milton, Massachusetts.
It was founded in 1672 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Among those interred in the cemetery are:
- James A. Burke, United States Representative from Massachusetts
- Elbie Fletcher, Major League Baseball player
- Edward A. Gisburne, United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Nathaniel Carl Goodwin, actor and vaudevillian
- Howard Deering Johnson, businessman and founder of the Howard Johnson's restaurant and hotel chain
- Wendell Phillips, abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and orator
- Steve Trapilo, player in the National Football League
- Paul H. Weinert, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Famous quotes containing the words milton and/or cemetery:
“What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
If not, what resolution from despair.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”
—John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)