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Designated NYCL. June 18, 1996 [3] Governors Island is a 172-acre (70 ha) island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located approximately 800 yards (730 m) south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the 400-yard-wide (370 m) Buttermilk Channel.
Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848. Silver Lake Cemetery, Silver Lake (first cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association) United Hebrew Cemetery, Richmondtown; See also. 1973 New York City gravediggers' strike; List of cemeteries in New York; List of cemeteries in the United ...
Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848. Saint Peter's Cemetery, Liberty
February 10, 1995. White Store Church and Evergreen Cemetery is a national historic district containing a historic meetinghouse and cemetery at the junction of New York State Route 8 and White Store Road, 4 miles south of South New Berlin in Norwich, Chenango County, New York. The district includes two contributing buildings, one contributing ...
March 2, 1981. Fort Golgotha and the Old Burial Hill Cemetery is the site of an historic cemetery, officially known as the "Old Burying Ground", [2] and the location of a former Revolutionary War-era fort, known as Fort Golgotha, at Main Street ( NY 25A) and Nassau Road in Huntington, New York. It is located in the Old Town Green Historic ...
June 23, 2011. 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 ...
The cemetery encompasses 113 acres (46 hectares) and is the property of the local Moravian Church congregation of Staten Island. To the cemetery's southwest is High Rock Park, one of the constituent parks of the Staten Island Greenbelt. History. In what was a purely farming community, the 113-acre (46 ha) cemetery was originally made available ...
The Roslyn Cemetery is a product of the "Rural Cemetery Act" of which one of the many intents was to move burial grounds away from the local church and community as well as to design the grounds in a park like setting. This is clearly evident in the "Roslyn Cemetery" which is more like a botanical garden than a cemetery. Interments began in the ...