Long Hill Burial Ground (not to be confused with Long Hill Burial Ground in Trumbull) is located on Long Hill Avenue, just off Constitution Boulevard in Shelton, Connecticut. It was established in 1720 and boasts one "famous" interment: Henry Shelton Sanford. Continue on this page for additional information about Sanford, as well as photos of his unusual memorial.

Estimated number of interments, as of January 2024: at least 386.

Photos taken 17 March 2010.

One of the older, if not the oldest, stone in Long Hill.

"Here Lyes the Body of Mr. Isaac Bennett

aged about 70 years

died May the 23d 1720"

"Here Lyes Buried ye (the) Body of

Capt. NATHAN BENNET

Who Departed this Life

Sept. 19th A.D. 1748 Aged 51 Years."

"Here lies the Body of

EBENEZER WAKLEE who died in

Jan.y AD. 1796, in the

35th Year of his Age."

"Lambertine Constance

1857 - 1933"

The Honorable Henry Shelton Sanford, L.L.D. was in the diplomatic service from 1843 until 1891. In 1871, he founded the town of Sanford, Florida. In 1878, he convinced the famous adventurer Henry Morton Stanley to explore the African Congo for Belgium's King Leopold II. Sanford later became one of the founders of the Congo Free State in Africa. 

All photos copyright by the author, 2010. Not to be used or reproduced without permission.

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