The Old North Cemetery is located north of modern downtown Concord, and a short way west of Concord's
historic early town center. It is a roughly L-shaped property, about in size, bounded on the east by North State Street and the west by Bradley Street. Iron fencing lines both of these street-facing boundaries, with a gate flanked by stone piers on North State Street serving as the main pedestrian access point. Vehicular access is through an entrance at the northern end of the North State Street frontage, from which a paved lane extends straight westward to a secondary gate at Bradley Street. Concord was chartered in 1725, and settlement began soon afterward. The eastern portion of the cemetery was laid out in 1730, and its oldest dated burial occurred in 1736. Significant enlargements took place with the Minot Enclosure (1860), and the combining with an adjacent
Quaker cemetery in the early 20th century. The single most notable burial is that of President
Franklin Pierce; other notable burials include
Governors David L. Morril and
Matthew Harvey, as well as Lewis Downing, founder of the
Abbot-Downing Company and creator of the
Concord coach. ==See also==