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Hillcrest Park Cemetery

cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ5762847 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hillcrest Park Cemetery is located in Springfield, Massachusetts. Although it is not known when it was established, it is known that the Hillcrest Park Cemetery Association – those who oversee the cemetery – was founded in 1924.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hillcrest Park Cemetery” as cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hillcrest, Park and Cemetery.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hillcrest, Park and Cemetery providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hillcrest Park Cemetery”, the useful work is to connect “cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5762847. Authority coordinates are 42.129, -72.493. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hillcrest Park Cemetery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.