Old Cove Burying Ground
The final resting place of three Mayflower passengers.
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This ancient graveyard in Eastham is the final resting place of three Mayflower passengers: Constance Hopkins Snow (1677), Joseph Rogers (1678), and Giles Hopkins (1690). The last known burial here was in 1770; look for headstones carved with winged heads and skulls, hourglasses, and crossed bones -- far more common than religious symbols such as crosses. The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places.