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Tiptoe Through the Tombstones: Highland Cemetery

  • Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street Newburyport, MA 01950 United States (map)

Directions: 21 Hill St, meet at Highland Cemetery sign

Wander through Newburyport’s historic Highland Cemetery with noted author and historian Ghlee Woodworth, a 12th generation Newburyport native. From the long-forgotten graves of Newburyport’s once-thriving Black community leaders to the mausoleums of captains of industry, sea-faring folk, artists, eccentrics, and ordinary Newburyporters, learn about people whose lives were recorded in stone.

$15 adults

$10 Museum of Old Newbury members