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This list of cemeteries in Michigan includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
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
The New York City–area cemeteries established under the Rural Cemetery Act grew very large. In 1880, All Faiths Cemetery had more burials than any other non-sectarian cemetery in the U.S., [ 6 ] and in 1904 it was the burial site for all 1,021 people who died when the excursion boat SS General Slocum caught fire and sank during a Sunday ...
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 ...
The Woodmere Cemetery Association was organized on July 8, 1867, by a group of prominent Detroit businessmen who purchased approximately 250 acres to establish a rural cemetery for the city of Detroit. [3] Woodmere's layout was designed by Adolph Strauch, who also designed Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. [4]
The ground was connected with St. John's Chapel of Trinity Parish from 1834 to 1898, although many of the burials predate the cemetery's acquisition by the church. The last burials were in about 1860. It is estimated that about 10,000 people were buried there. In 1897, the cemetery was made into a public park by the city of New York.
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
Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark. Located south of Woodlawn Heights, Bronx, New York City, [1] it has the character of a rural cemetery. Woodlawn Cemetery opened during the Civil War in 1863, [2] in what was then Yonkers, in an area that was annexed to New York City ...