Cemeteries / Trees / Greens

Cemeteries
  • Reach Cemetery Staff by Cell Phone


The Cemeteries, Trees and Greens Department employs 10 full-time staff responsible for maintaining over 135 acres of town-owned land, parks and cemeteries and 32 athletic fields.

Cemetery responsibilities: funerals, interments, seeding, loaming, trimming, mowing, rubbish, foundations and markers, funeral flowers, snow plowing, and tree and shrub maintenance/planting.

Cemeteries

  • Cedar Grove Cemetery, Ocean Street, est. 1721
  • Centre Marshfield Cemetery, corner of Ferry and Grove Streets, est. 1753♦
  • Chapel Cemetery, Ocean Street, est. 1793♦
  • Couch Cemetery, Union Street, est. 1983, only cemetery still selling lots
  • Marshfield Hills Cemetery, Old Main Street, est. 1729, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as part of Marshfield Hills Village)
  • Old Winslow Burial Ground, Winslow Cemetery Road, est. 1640, oldest cemetery in town, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Two Mile Burial Ground, Union Street, est. 1801♦

♦ Historic cemetery

To find a specific burial at any of Marshfield's active or historic cemeteries, please visit www.cemeteryfind.com

Trees and brush responsibilities: removal and planting, trimming of low hanging branches, and tree hearings.

Roadside Maintenance: trimming and pruning of 480 miles of road sides.

School and park responsibilities: mowing, rubbish removal, irrigation, benches at all ballfields, soccer fields, tennis courts, football fields, track, over seeding, loam, fertilization contract, basketball courts.

Schools

  • Daniel Webster School, Ocean Street
  • Eames Way School, Eames Way
  • Governor Winslow School, Regis Road
  • Marshfield High School Complex, Forest Street
  • South River School, Hatch Street

Parks

  • Harbor Park, Joseph Driebeek Way
  • Marshfield Hills Fire Station Playground (Brooks Singer), Old Main Street
  • Peter Igo Park, Marshall Ave.
  • Recreation Center at Coast Guard Hill, Ferry Street
  • Rockwood Road Athletic Complex, Rockwood Road
  • South River Park, Ocean Street
  • Tower Avenue Park Complex, Tower Ave.
  • Wheeler Recreation Complex, Webster Street

 Responsibilities at other Recreational, Historical Sites and Town Buildings include: rubbish, mowing, seed/loam, irrigation systems, mowing.

Town Buildings

  • Daniel Webster Estate  (Historical Site), Webster Street
  • Daniel Webster Gravesite at Winslow Cemetery, Winslow Cemetery Road
  • Fire Stations (3) South River Street, Old Main Street, Massasoit Ave.
  • Grace Ryder Complex, Main Street
  • Police Station, Ocean Street
  • Senior Center Complex, Webster Street
  • Town Hall, Moraine Street
  • Ventress Memorial Library, Library Plaza

The Cemetery/Trees/Greens Division also maintains approximately 16 traffic islands that have not been adopted under the Adopt an Island program. This includes mowing, trimming and general upkeep.

Staff Contacts

NameTitlePhone
Amy Coughlin

Administrative Assistant

(781) 834-5575 ext. 1405

Matt Eby

Foreman

Cell: (781) 539-9436