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Excerpt from Historical Memoir of the Springfield Cemetery: Read to the Proprietors at Their Meeting, May 23, 1857
To insure success to the enterprise, a subscription was taken up for shares in the company, of $10 each, which, on the let of June, 1841, amounted to the subscribers to be at liberty to take an interest in lots to be laid out, to the extent of their subscriptions. The work of laying out, grading, planting, oma menting and fencing the grounds, was commenced, and has been constantly pursued to the present time. The grounds have been enlarged by several additions since the first purchase, and they now contain about thirty-five acres of land at a total cost of about 0 51; and they are believed to be ample for many genera tions to come. They include a house and lot in Mulberry street, adjoining the Cemetery, purchased for in 1848, for the use of the Superintendent - a part of which has been rented. A barn was erected near the house in 1849 for the purposes of the company, at a cost of about $600. A receiving tomb was con structed in 1841, and being found too small, an addition of equal size has been recently made to it.
On the 5th day of September, 1841, the Cemetery was duly consecrated by religious services, and an appropriate address was delivered by the President, the Rev. Mr. Peabody.
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