Above: The Wheat Tavern, also known as the Long Block, located in the center of town. The tavern was constructed in 1781.

​Daniel Wheat, is buried in this cemetery. His tombstone notes that he was a gentle spirit and a good and pure man. Wheat served as a Minuteman on April 19th, 1775 as a Private in Captain James Russell's Company in Colonel Eleazer Brook's Regiment. On March 4th, 1776, His company marched to Dorchester to help drive the British Army out of Boston. 
 
After the war, Wheat constructed the long block in town center where he operated a popular tavern and boarding house. The building later served as a tearoom, general store, and post office. ​

​According to tradition, in the late 18th century after the war, Daniel Wheat would host the local militiamen at his tavern after they completed their "training day" exercises on the town common. These feasts were said to have included a delectable menu of roast goose, roast turkey, plum pudding, meat pie, and "flip which was often drunk to excess." 

Daniel Wheat is buried in Carlisle's Central Burying Ground. 
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Above: Daniel Wheat's gravestone.