Pleasant Street Cemetery

This burial ground was established in 1754 on land deeded to the town of Portsmouth by the Pickering family and is situated in a waterfront area on South Mill Pond that was once known as “Pickering’s Neck.” It is the final resting place of many members of Portsmouth’s most prosperous families from the period 1770 to 1860, the town’s golden age of mercantile and seafaring wealth. Of the approximately fifty known gravesites in this cemetery, at least twenty of the interred had strong seafaring ties. Several ship captains lie here alongside their wives, and a number of mariners’ wives are buried alone, their husbands presumably interred far from home or lost at sea.

See the City Historic Marker for Pleasant Street Cemetery

For specific gravesite details, visit the Portsmouth Public Library Cemetery Index