The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

The cemetery was designed by Easton native Joseph Wilbar, who had moved to Taunton in 1822; it appears to be the only known landscape work he has executed.

The cemetery occupies about 10 acres (4.0 ha) in a diamond-shaped lot bordered on three sides by Crocker, Cohannet and Barnum Streets, with its main gate on Crocker Street, a wrought iron gate supported by granite posts donated by Mrs. Edward King in 1926.

The highest ranking army officer in this cemetery is Civil War General Darius Nash Couch and the highest ranking Naval officer is Rear Admiral Albert Loring Swasey.

There are Congressmen, state legislators, mayors as well as national pioneers in the fields of industry, business, the arts and transportation.