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kind: Historical documents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kind: Historical documents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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institution: Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
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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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institution: Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
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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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institution: Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
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id: ED-X-evergreen-cemetery-new-haven-1
title: Edward Bouchet gravesite
kind: Photographs
date: 2017-04-08 per Commons
institution: Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
summary: Edward Alexander Bouchet's gravestone at Evergreen Cemetery. Evergreen Cemetery context: Edward A. Bouchet's gravestone in New Haven. This is a different grave from Mary Hart's.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Bouchet_gravesite.jpg
credit: Photo by Ronald Mickens, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Ronald E. Mickens Collection; American Institute of Physics / AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives via Wikimedia Commons
notes: Original repository https://repository.aip.org/node/8995. Commons explicitly quotes AIP permission to use image with listed credit. Clearly label cemetery context; never pass off as Hart's grave. AIP original page could not be independently fetched; rights are corroborated by the explicit AIP permission and repository URL reproduced in Commons, not by a successful live AIP catalog read. Not Mary Hart's gravestone. Retain prominent Evergreen/Bouchet context label and do not count as an exact Hart grave photograph. Related collection cross-reference; this image is also cataloged in mary-midnight-mary-hart. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: CC BY 4.0
file: images/ED-X-evergreen-cemetery-new-haven-1.webp
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accessed: 2026-09-12
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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id: ED-X-evergreen-cemetery-new-haven-2
title: Mary E. Hart gravestone at Evergreen Cemetery
kind: Photographs
date: Undated; published 2021-11-11
institution: Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven
summary: The actual Mary E. Hart gravestone in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, as identified by the publisher.
url: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-221-midnight-mary-in-evergreen-cemetery/
credit: New England Legends; photographer not named / New England Legends
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Use the inscription as evidence and label accompanying ghost stories as folklore. Podcast dramatization does not establish that Hart was buried alive. Related collection cross-reference; this image is also cataloged in mary-midnight-mary-hart. Reuse: No open reuse license verified
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