[1] It is owned and operated by a non-profit cemetery association, and remains in active use, with about 3,000 marked burials.

Facing Salem Street, the property is edged by a fieldstone wall, with an impressive early 20th-century bronze gate as its primary entrance.

In the 1930s an expansion was designed by landscape architect Harland P. Kelsey in consultation with Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

The gates, a gift of mill owner George Gilbert, were designed by Julius A. Schweinfurth and installed in 1909.

[2] Media related to Ridgewood Cemetery (North Andover, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons