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Hart Island contains New York City's 131-acre (0.53 km 2) potter's field, or public cemetery (not to be confused with Potter's Field in Brooklyn). The potter's field is variously described as the largest tax-funded cemetery in the United States, [66] the largest-such in the world, [47] [67] and one of the largest mass graves in the United States.
The Trench in Potter's Field on Hart Island, New York, circa 1890 by Jacob Riis Potter's field in Dunn County, Wisconsin. A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or indigent people.
This is New York's potter's field, one of the largest cemeteries in the United States where the unclaimed dead, the unknown and the very poor have been laid to rest for more than a century ...
Kings County Cemetery, also known as Kings County Farm Cemetery or County Farm Cemetery, was a cemetery located on Clarkson Avenue, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City. [1] The cemetery was also called Potter's Field (name for paupers' grave), not to be confused with the Potter's Field at Hart Island, the Bronx.
Hart Island, also known as Potter's Field (not to be confused with Potter's Field, Brooklyn [15] Pelham Cemetery, City Island; St. Peter's Church, Chapel, and Cemetery, [16] Westchester Square; Saint Raymond's Cemetery, [17] Throggs Neck; West Farms Soldiers Cemetery, [18] West Farms; Woodlawn Cemetery, [19] Woodlawn
By the mid-1850s, The New York Times regarded the Randalls Island potter's field as "a disgrace to the city". [ 103 ] [ 104 ] The Corporation of New York thus began acquiring land for the Wards Island potter's field in 1851; [ 102 ] it covered 69 to 75 acres (28 to 30 ha).
Bailey Park and Potter's Field are two different housing developments. Potter's Field is owned by Henry F. Potter and through his bank, while Bailey Park is owned by residents who have received mortgages through the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan. Bailey Park was built just south of Mount Bedford and north of the town.
On January 22, Fields Good Chicken is set to reopen their Flatiron location at its new space (46A East 23rd Street (at Park Avenue South) just two doors down from its original location.