The historic First Burial Ground is Woburn’s oldest cemetery and is the final resting place of many of Woburn’s early settlers, military heroes, church leaders, oldest families, and descendants of several U.S. Presidents. Veterans of the King Philip’s War, French and Indian Wars and Revolutionary War, including Daniel Thompson, Woburn’s first military casualty on April 19, 1775, are buried here as are Colonel Loammi Baldwin, architect of the Middlesex Canal and his son, Loammi Baldwin Jr., often called the “Father of Civil Engineering in America.”

The burial ground is located on a rocky hill and the inscriptions of many headstones face west, with the footstones facing east and mounded graves between the pairs. This represents the readiness of the deceased to “rise up and face the new day (the sun)” when “the trumpets shall sound and the dead shall be raised” at the coming of Christ.