Template:Wp-Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank

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Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank (also known as Bell Rock Cemetery) is a historic cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. It occupies a roughly rectangular parcel of land in size, bounded by Medford and Green Streets, Converse Avenue and the Malden River on the west. It is the oldest cemetery in the city, established in 1649. Its earliest probable burial dates to that same year, although the oldest gravestone, that of Alice Brackenbury, bears the date 1670. The Malden Public Library, in its local history collection, has a multi-volume set of binders that contain alphabetically ordered photographs of every grave in the cemetery with the epitaphs on each gravestone transcribed below its picture.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.^[1]

It is the final resting place of Michael Wigglesworth, a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem, "The Day of Doom", was very popular in early New England and remains so to this day.