Quaker Cemetery

Steve Asher

Doug Stanhope schupt some chick in the 80s here.

Gone Fishin'

Thank you for maintaining this Cemetery. I was so happy to find the burial place of my ancestors; the Earles'. I hope to visit in person this coming fall, 2022.

Victor Montañez

A wonderful place to walk the trails and enjoy the scenery plus you can go inside the cemetery to see all the history when you look at the website or just at the tombstones.

Michael Newell

Instead of the "Quaker Cemetery," in Worcester, we would refer to it formally as "The Friend's Cemetery." But we usually spoke of it informally as "Spider Gates." See the design on the gates in the picture? I think it got that name partly because of that design and also because it made it just that much more spooky. If you look at where it is you will see it's in the middle of nowhere. We used to have to go down this long lost road just to get to the gates. It was kind of easy to miss. But when you went there at night, which is what tons (in mean tons) of teenagers did, it was a classic setting from a Hollywood or story book horror story. Remember when you were a kid, somehow you heard a story about a teenage couple who went to some long lost cemetery to go parking and after hearing a creepy noise the guy gets out only to have the terrified girlfriend step out in the daylight the following day to find him hanging above the roof of the car? Well that story was forever attached to Spider Gates Cemetery. Teens for high schools, especially from Leicester and West Worcester, but all over the Worcester area would go there to drink and just have fun together. Many grownups have stories of how they went there in their parent's car, turned off the lights and told spooky stories (like the one above) as if they had really happened there. The screams and terror that it generated was completely delightful to the participants. So, if you talk about "The Friend's Cemetery" to Worcester/Leicester, etc folk, you will generally hear people go on about their wonderful memories of "Spidah Gaits Cemahtiry." It was wicked skiary, wicked fun.