THE SOUTH STREET CEMETERY is Fitchburg’s oldest and its only colonial-era burying ground. It is located on the south bank of the Nashua River at the corner of South and Walnut Streets and was established in the 1760s on land given to the town by Deacon Amos Kimball, who is buried here. The occupants of the South Street Cemetery were the first colonial settlers of Fitchburg: they cleared the land, established the first farms and shops, formed the town government in 1764, and laid out the original streets. Many of them served as soldiers in the American Revolution and answered the call to march to Concord on the 19th of April in 1775.