Seaside Cemetery

Monuments
oceans
and
lichen
The Langsford Cemetery is also called Seaside Cemetery and appears on different maps with the different names. It’s the same place though.
The graveyard was established in 1857 so it isn’t one of the really old ones in New England. Most of the graves seem to date from the late 1800s and apparently that’s when it had the most use.
The cemetery does indeed have some very lovely views of the ocean from the small hills and also has some very old and very spooky looking trees.
Many of the monuments are rather modest and are covered by the yellow lichen that seems to cover everything near the ocean up north. Some of the gravestones are worn away but others are still in pretty decent shape. All depends on the location and direction of the wind.
A lovely and historic old graveyard that not only gives a sense of Cape Ann history but also has some lovely views of the raging ocean.