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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]
The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
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.
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 ...
Mario Merola (1922–1987), lawyer, New York City Councilman, and Bronx County District Attorney William P. Merrill Harry F. Millarde (1885–1931), silent film actor and director
The Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum is a private burial site adjacent to the Moravian Cemetery in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century, when the Vanderbilt family was the wealthiest in America.
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 ...