Dell Park was originally founded as the town burying grounds in 1849. Today it is the oldest cemetery still operating in Natick. Older historic burial grounds including the Boden Lane Cemetery in West Natick, the North Natick Cemetery, the Indian Burial Ground, the  Old Burial Ground, and the Glenwood Cemetery, in South Natick, can still be visited. The earliest known interment in the Old Burial Ground is that of Mehettable Dyer, who died in 1733.

Following an invocation by Rev. Alfred Greenwood, the Rev. Samuel Hunt of the First Church delivered an address in which he called attention to the changing tastes which led to the creation of “extensive tracts of land, picturesque in scenery and presenting an agreeable diversity of prospect, to be fitted up as ornamental burying grounds…as cemeteries, or…places of rest for all coming time. In this regard, Dell Park was following the example of the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge (est. 1831), which was the first of the pastoral cemeteries, modeled on utopian ideals, as well as the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and Laurel Hill in Philadelphia.