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Christ Church and Manlius Village Cemeteries in Manlius, New York is a 7 acres (2.8 ha) designation on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The listing includes two adjacent cemeteries and a stone wall. [2] 60 rods of land were donated to Christ Church for a cemetery on March 4, 1813. [3]
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
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.
John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City; John Bassett Moore; George L. K. Morris (1905–1975), Cubist artist, writer, and editor; Paul Morton; Robert Moses, government official, planner, builder, and Parks Department Commissioner of New York City; Bernarr McFadden Founder of the Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, NY, McFadden Publications
The first cemetery on this site was established in 1837 and it was known as "Union Cemetery of Rye". James Parker and David Brooks of Rye donated 3 acres (12,000 m 2) of land to Christ's Church, Rye, with plots to be reserved for the ministers of the three churches of Rye and their families. Two strips on the eastern and western sides of the ...
The main section is in Glendale, Queens, and has more than 85,000 occupied plots. A new section was opened in nearby Ridgewood. It was built as part of the Rural Cemetery Act, a New York City ban on new Manhattan cemeteries effective 1850, which led to the opening of new ones in Brooklyn and Queens that form an area collectively called Cemetery ...
Memorial garden plots for urns Old section of the cemetery. Locust Valley Cemetery is a non-denominational cemetery located in Locust Valley, New York, in Nassau County.The cemetery was founded in the nineteenth century and designed by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., renowned architects of Central Park.