Developed shortly after 1880 by Elias H. Kent, a successful local farmer, the Kent Burying Ground is among the most unusual rural burying grounds in the State of Maine. The site is located in the Kennebec County town of Fayette, in a small settlement known as Fayette Corners. Occupying just .35 of an acre, the raised burial ground is notable for its design in which concentric rings of burial plots are organized around a central monument, characteristics which it shares with the nearby, national Register listed Wing Cemetery in Wayne. This unusual configuration is accompanied by an intact boundary fence, gate, mature maple trees along its border, raised earthen berms, and granite retaining walls, and reflects to some extent the Garden or Rural Cemetery design aesthetic that became popular in larger cities in the mid-nineteenth century. Because of its notable landscape design characteristics the cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a property that embodies distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction and that also possesses high artistic values.