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One effect of the law was the development of a large concentration of cemeteries along the border between the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, often called the "Cemetery Belt". [13] By the 1860s, rural cemeteries could be found on the outskirts of cities and smaller towns across the country. [14]
Oak Hill Cemetery (Oak Hill, New York) Oakwood Cemetery (Niagara Falls, New York) Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York) Old Cochecton Cemetery; Old Hartwick Village Cemetery; Old Sloatsburg Cemetery; Old St. Peter's Church (Van Cortlandtville, New York) Old Town Cemetery (Newburgh, New York) Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City; New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York; New Paltz Rural Cemetery, New Paltz; New York Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City
Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in New York listed on the National Register of Historic Places: There are over 6,000 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New York State. Some are listed within each one of the 62 counties in New York State.
The law authorized nonprofit entities to establish cemeteries on rural land and sell burial plots, and it exempted from property taxation land that was so used. [3] A few rural cemeteries had been established in New York before the new law was passed (including Green-Wood Cemetery in 1838 and Albany Rural Cemetery in 1844), but the law's passage soon led to the establishment of more new ...
This spot of tightly-packed houses in the city of Kingston was a cemetery for people who were enslaved as far back as 1750 and remained a burial ground until the late 1800s, when the cemetery was ...
First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown [2] New York Marble Cemetery, [3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City; New York City Marble Cemetery, [4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City. Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Staten Island, or in other words in Richmond County, New York, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a ...