Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
Selected founding documents and monument history, with links to the operating cemetery’s maps and burial search. Current address: 769 Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, New Haven. This collection is not a complete interment register. No rights-cleared historic cemetery landscape photograph was located in this pass.

id: EVG-001
title: Evergreen Cemetery’s founding and first interment
kind: Historical documents
date: 1887
summary: Page 689 of Edward E. Atwater’s History of the City of New Haven distinguishes the 1848 association, its first interment, the 1849 consecration and the 1856 expansion. The same page briefly identifies Fair Haven’s cemetery behind its Congregational church.
url: https://archive.org/details/historyofcityofn00atwa_0/page/689/mode/1up
credit: Edward E. Atwater, History of the City of New Haven (1887), p. 689; Internet Archive scan
notes: Public domain in the United States: published in 1887. Complete page retained. Verified printed page 689; Internet Archive leaf 1185. The first burial must not be dated November 29 solely from the death date.
file: images/evg-001-atwater-1887-p689.jpg
text_file: texts/evg-001.txt
institution: Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/
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id: EVG-002
title: The stone-cutters behind New Haven’s monuments
kind: Historical documents
date: 1887
summary: Atwater’s account names Thomas Phillips & Son and its 1877 branch yard opposite Evergreen, then lists monuments attributed to the firm in Evergreen, Grove Street and Fair Haven.
url: https://archive.org/details/historyofcityofn00atwa_0/page/630/mode/1up
credit: Edward E. Atwater, History of the City of New Haven (1887), p. 630; Internet Archive scan
notes: Public domain in the United States: published in 1887. Complete page retained. Verified printed page 630; Internet Archive leaf 1102. The earlier candidate page 628 does not contain this material and is excluded.
file: images/evg-002-atwater-1887-p630.jpg
text_file: texts/evg-002.txt
institution: Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/
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id: EVG-003
title: Official cemetery maps
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Current
summary: Overall, Evergreen, Mapledale, Association Singles and numbered-section maps.
url: https://evergreencem.org/cemetery-maps/
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Current maps are linked. No public-domain or open-license statement was found for republication. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: EVG-004
title: Official burial search
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Current
summary: Name-search route supplied by the operating cemetery.
url: https://evergreencem.org/search-burial-records/
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Check each result and ask the cemetery about underlying registers and coverage. No mass export acquired. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: EVG-005
title: Connecticut Digital Archive search
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Date not established
summary: Potential repository route for historical New Haven cemetery photographs, lot maps and institutional records.
url: https://ctdigitalarchive.org/
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Repository lead only; no specific Evergreen item with verified reuse rights was selected. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: EVG-006
title: Supporting source: evergreencem.org
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source consulted September 2026
summary: Supporting source for the collection history and chronology.
url: https://evergreencem.org/
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: External source; consult the original publication for its full context.
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