Grove St Cemetery

The Grove Street Cemetery, the 1st chartered burial ground in the US, succeeded the previous common burial site, the New Haven Green. After severe yellow fever epidemics in 1794 and 1795 the Green, which held maybe as many as 5, 000 burials, was simply too crowded to continue as the chief burial ground. Ln 1796 a group of New Haven citizens led by U. S, Senator James Hillhouse planned a new cemetery on a location at the edge of town.