The cemetery is located at 2950 Route 7A in Manchester Village, Vermont.

The tombstones from the old cemetery were moved to clear the lot for construction of the courthouse in 1822, but the bodies were not re-interred.

It was built on thirteen acres (5.3 ha)[5] purchased through donations made by two previous residents of Manchester Village, Illinois State Representative Mark Skinner and Judge Helmus Wells.

[3] In July 1926, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, died at Hildene, the family home in Manchester Center, Vermont.

His body was stored in the receiving vault at Dellwood Cemetery until March 1928 when arrangements were made to inter his remains at Arlington National Cemetery.