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A historic Dover cemetery, dating in part to the 1730s, where the Woodman Museum runs a ticketed daytime "Voices from the Cemetery" history tour.
131 Central Avenue, Dover, NH 03820
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$
The cemetery itself is a free public burial ground. The Woodman Museum's seasonal 'Voices from the Cemetery' guided tour is a low-cost ticketed event; timed tickets are sold through the museum.
Access
Limited Access
Well-worn paths over a rolling historic cemetery; the tour involves short walks and standing on uneven ground.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1734 · Historic Dover burial ground with eighteenth-century stones · Site of the Woodman Museum's long-running 'Voices from the Cemetery' tour
Pine Hill Cemetery sits along Central Avenue in Dover, one of New Hampshire's oldest settlements on the Seacoast. The cemetery holds generations of Dover residents, and according to coverage of the Woodman Museum's tours the oldest surviving headstone dates to 1734, placing the grounds among the older burial sites in the region. It should not be confused with the better-known Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, which carries the separate 'Blood Cemetery' folklore.
The cemetery's public profile today is tied largely to the Woodman Museum, Dover's institution for local history and natural science. Each fall the museum stages 'Voices from the Cemetery,' a guided daytime walking tour through the grounds. Costumed volunteers portray real people buried in Pine Hill and recount more than two centuries of Dover history, from the notable to the notorious. New Hampshire Public Radio and local stations have covered the event as a recurring community program.
The cemetery has a haunted reputation in regional listings, and a gravestone tied to local legend was removed from the grounds years ago. The museum's program, however, is framed as living history rather than a ghost hunt. For visitors, the cemetery functions as both a working historic burial ground and, on scheduled dates, the stage for one of Dover's most established heritage events. The graves belong to identifiable Dover residents and should be treated with the respect due any active cemetery.
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Dover's Pine Hill Cemetery appears on regional lists of New Hampshire's haunted burial grounds, and local coverage notes that a gravestone connected to area folklore was removed from the cemetery some years ago. The available reporting treats the haunted angle as reputation and folklore rather than documented phenomena, and it is thin on specific named encounters.
What the site is genuinely known for is the Woodman Museum's annual 'Voices from the Cemetery,' a costumed walking tour in which volunteers portray real Dover residents buried in the cemetery. The framing is deliberately historical: visitors meet the dead as characters who narrate Dover's past, not as apparitions. New Hampshire Public Radio described the event as the dead 'coming to life' for a weekend, with actors stationed among the graves.
Because the people interpreted on the tour were real Dover residents, the program leans on documented biography rather than invented ghost stories. Anyone drawn by the cemetery's haunted listings should know that the established, ticketed experience here is a daytime history tour, and that the grounds remain an active cemetery deserving of respect.
Take the Woodman Museum's seasonal daytime walking tour of Pine Hill Cemetery, in which costumed actors portray real people buried here and recount centuries of Dover history. The roughly 40-minute tour follows the cemetery's worn paths between burial sites; timed tickets are required and sold in advance through the Woodman Museum. This is a history-and-theater program, not a paranormal investigation.
Outside of the museum's tour dates, walk the historic grounds of Pine Hill Cemetery on Central Avenue during daylight. Some of the surviving markers date to the eighteenth century. Respect the active burial ground and observe posted hours.
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