SILENT GROUNDS COLLECTIVE · NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVE
SGC-98 · Research edition September 24, 2026
A photographic history with cited opening dates, collection history and individually credited images. Historic views, later photographs and illustrations are dated separately. This is a selected collection, not an exhaustive inventory.
Snow on the ground in Broad Street Cemetery in Meriden, Connecticut, USA.
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Weathered gravestones and a tall monument stand beneath broad trees. The transcription website dates this photograph circa 1909 but attributes it to the 1906 A Century of Meriden; those conflicting labels do not establish an exact exposure date.
Image credit and sourceBroad Street Cemetery holds names from Meriden’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life. The indexed burial of Thankful Ackley, who died in 1771, reaches back before the Revolution. A date on a surviving marker or in a later index does not by itself establish a formal dedication day, so the opening line preserves what the record actually supports. [SGC98-S3]
The Hale survey gives the cemetery a second life on paper. Recorded inscriptions preserve names and wording that weathering can make harder to read today. The online transcriber explains that the text has passed through several stages of copying and OCR. That makes a photograph of a stone especially valuable: it lets a visitor compare a name, age or date with the transcription instead of assuming every typed character is correct. [SGC98-S1]
The Patriots memorial draws attention to Revolutionary-era service, while the surrounding graves preserve a broader community of family relationships and losses. The external photographic album offers many close views of individual stones. Alongside the included cemetery view, these linked photographs make the collection useful for looking carefully as well as searching names. This is Meriden’s Broad Street Cemetery; similarly named burial grounds elsewhere are separate places. [SGC98-S4]
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SGC98-S1 · Historical sources · Source dates described in record
Transcription of the Hale survey, cemetery code 211-1, with an early cemetery photograph and historical-book references.
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Credit: Broad Street Cemetery: Hale inscription transcription. Cite SGC SGC-98, SGC98-S1, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.SGC98-S2 · Historical sources · Source dates described in record
Identifies Meriden’s Broad Street Cemetery as 211.01, Volume 26, pages 1–25.
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Credit: Connecticut SHPO: Hale cemetery inventory. Cite SGC SGC-98, SGC98-S2, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.SGC98-S3 · Historical sources · Source dates described in record
Burial index including Thankful Ackley, 1702–1771; derivative records require comparison with stones and original surveys.
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Credit: FamilySearch: Broad Street Cemetery. Cite SGC SGC-98, SGC98-S3, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.SGC98-S4 · Historical sources · Source dates described in record
Photographs of the Revolutionary War memorial and headstones at the Meriden cemetery.
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Credit: The Patriots memorial: photographic record. Cite SGC SGC-98, SGC98-S4, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.SGC98-S5 · Historical sources · Source dates described in record
A separately credited external album of 124 cemetery photographs; images remain with their photographer.
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Credit: Broad Street Cemetery: photograph album. Cite SGC SGC-98, SGC98-S5, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-193471407 · Photographs · 2026-01-24
Snow on the ground in Broad Street Cemetery in Meriden, Connecticut, USA.
Reproduced from the credited source. A resized source derivative is used for display; the original-resolution source remains linked. Hosted by Silent Grounds Collective. SHA-256 of uploaded source: db6c14fd19a0c0ee29d3b5595fef6a1d1d5bde800480ffa115bc0afe464ecab1.
Credit: MConradWard; CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-98, PHOTO-193471407, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-broad-historic · Photographs · Early 20th century; caption date uncertain
Weathered gravestones and a tall monument stand beneath broad trees. The transcription website dates this photograph circa 1909 but attributes it to the 1906 A Century of Meriden; those conflicting labels do not establish an exact exposure date.
Public-domain historical image reproduced from the linked source. Original caption and attribution retained; no historical detail has been reconstructed. Hosted by Silent Grounds Collective. SHA-256 of uploaded source: f38765378188840d7c1bb3e94da7dafaff27ebf523446668ebee25b0c183fa41.
Credit: A Century of Meriden (1906), as attributed by D. C. Yale; public-domain historical photograph; digital reproduction at dcyale.com.. Cite SGC SGC-98, PHOTO-broad-historic, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.SGC-PHOTO-LINK-002 · Photograph collections · Dates stated by source
Browse cemeteryrodeo’s photographic album of Broad Street Cemetery, including individual gravestones and wider views. Images remain with the photographer.
Linked photo collection. Copyright and reuse terms remain with the photographer or publisher. Images have not been copied into this archive.
Credit: cemeteryrodeo / Flickr. Cite SGC SGC-98, SGC-PHOTO-LINK-002, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.