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The Rural Cemetery Act was a law passed by the New York Legislature on April 27, 1847, that authorized commercial burial grounds in rural New York state. The law led to burial of human remains becoming a commercial business for the first time, replacing the practice of burying the dead in churchyards and on private farmland .
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
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 ...
Pages in category "Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Slavery in New York State was not fully abolished until 1827. [9] One of the earliest cartographic references to the Flatbush African Burial Ground is an 1855 map by Teunis G. Bergen, showing the "Negro Burying Ground" to the northeast of Erasmus Hall High School, which Bergen attended.
Roman Catholic cemeteries in New York (state) (1 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Cemeteries in New York (state)" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Bethel–Christian Avenue–Laurel Hill Historical District is a Setauket, Long Island, New York neighborhood that was nominated [2] for preservation as an endangered historic site in 2017. [ 3 ] The Bethel–Christian Avenue–Laurel Hill District on Long Island's north shore has roots back to the 1600s, when displaced African-American slaves ...