It is located next to the old Court House, at the intersection of George St. and Nova Scotia Trunk 1.
The earliest remaining tombstone is from 1720, that of Bethiah Douglass who died October 1, 1720, in her 37th year.
[1][2] The Douglass marker is the oldest English gravestone in Canada.
[3] Rose Fortune (1774–1864), a Black Loyalist and the first female police officer in what is now Canada is buried here.
The pioneering educator Andrew Henderson (1797–1869) was also buried there.