At the corner of French and Main Streets, the "Old Burying Ground" is the oldest cemetery in Watertown, CT. Hannah Richards Scovil, wife of Lieut. William Scovil was the first person buried here in 1741. Martha A. Beardsley Woodruff, wife of Frederick N. Woodruff, who died in 1926 is the last person buried here. In those 185 years, at least 978 gravestones were erected to record the lives and deaths of the town’s early inhabitants. Vol. 54 of the Hale Cemetery Inscriptions in Connecticut published by the WPA during the 1930s includes information about the memorial stones in this cemetery. Famous persons buried here: Rev. John Trumbull (1715-1787) known locally as “The Poet of the American Revolution”. Plaque near the gates on Main Street list the Soldiers of 1776 - Revolutionary War heroes. The cemetery is maintained by the Trumbull-Porter chapter of the D.A.R. In May 1938, this group published a book entitled "The Old Burying Ground of Ancient Westbury and Present Watertown" which also provides additional information.