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Cemeteries in Rockland County, New York |
Clarkstown: Congers, Nanuet, New City, Rockland Lake, Upper Nyack, Valley Cottage, West Nyack
Haverstraw: Garnerville, Haverstraw, Thiells, Willow Grove
Orangetown: Blauvelt, Nyack, Orangeburg, Palisades, Pearl River, Piermont, South Nyack, Sparkill, Tappan
Ramapo: Airmont, Camp Hill, Chestnut Ridge, Hempstead, Hillburn, Ladentown, Monsey, Montebello, Mount Ivy, New Hempstead, Pomona, Ramapo, Sloatsburg, Sherwoodville, Spring Valley, Suffern, Tallman, Viola
Stony Point: Grassy Point, Stony Point, Tomkins Cove
Regions neighboring Rockland Co.
New York State Law requires the Town in which an Abandoned Cemetery is located to assume ownership of the Abandoned Cemetery, and provide for protection and upkeep. In reality, this is not always the case. The office in charge is the Town Attorney's office or the Code Enforcement Officer.
Additions, corrections and other reference information is welcome and
appreciated. Responses should be sent to the compiler, Robert L.
Protzmann, for the Genealogical Society of Rockland County. <protzy41
optonline.net>
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Cemetery Site Number of reported graves Dimensions of Plot
Search (Link to GSRC listing of graves) |
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Ownership Current Mailing Address Telephone Location History Early Locations/Directions Web Links GPS Co-ordinates |
References
Tax Map ID
MAP Location, Pg and grid coordinates (Hammond's Bergen/Rockland Co Atlas) |
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1. Brisley Family Burial Ground Congers/Valley Cottage, NY 11 graves (1844-1869) 125 x 125 ft. |
Abandoned (Private), 1967. Rear of 31 (or 36) Dover Road
Formerly the George Felter farm property, center of Thornwood Hills Development (Thornhill Estates), 1/2 mile S of Congers UM Church. Lat: 41° 08' 06.99" N, Lon: 73° 57' 12.4" W |
2; 4, V6, p104; 13, #17; 20, 29; 31. Tax Map - 112-A-10.7
MAP 9, M-10 |
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2. Snedeker Graves Old Haverstraw Road (Kings Highway) and (Congers) Lake Road 4 graves (1810-1856) 20 x 15 ft. |
Abandoned 1967.
Congers United Methodist Church property Congers-Lake Road at Old Haverstraw Road (Kings Highway), Congers, NY. Stones in lawn, East side of Church.
(Formerly reported as "South side of the Swamp Road, a few hundred ft West of the Congers Church") - probably refers to Waring Graves.
Lat: 41° 09' 03.43" N, Lon: 73° 56' 44.72" W |
2; 4, V6, p82; 13, # 22; 20, 29; 31. MAP 9, M-10 |
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3. Waring Family Graves 4 graves (1841-1842) 10 x 10 ft. |
Abandoned (Private) South side, above Congers Road, on Cropsey Farm, opposite Garecht /Garret Road Fenced in, on hill above the road. Stone of Solomon Waring. Lat: 41° 09' 01.47" N, Lon: 73° 56' 09.68" W |
2 (#35); 13, #21; 20, 29. MAP 9, M-10 |
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3a. Stevens Tomb |
Cemented up.
4 miles South of Romaine's house on Congers-New City Road, known as Stevens Vault. |
31 (S). |
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3b. Stevens Tomb
Clarkstown, NY |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown
Same as above? |
31 (P). |
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4. DeBaun/ Swartwout BG 6A Gilcrest Road, Congers, NY 38 graves (1831-1878) 75 x 100 ft. |
Abandoned, 1967, formerly in the middle of a bungalow colony. South end of new lake at Congers. Congers Lake Memorial Park, north of parking lot Town of Clarkstown Lat: 41° 08' 22.93" N, Lon: 73° 56' 22.69" W |
2; 4, V6, p79; 13, # 36; 20. 29; 31. Tax Map - 125-B-1.4 MAP 9, M-11 |
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5. Van Houten, Howard Graves ca. 1 mi N of Congers Rd, at 74 Ridge Road 6 graves (1811-1890) 15 x 25 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, 1967. Deserted Cemetery, on family property (Partridge).
Not found April 2000, may be at rear of property.
Blauvelts, Van Houtens, Howards
Lat: 41° 09' 07.64" N, Lon: 73° 57' 07.53" W |
7, V4, p36; 13, # 20: 20, 29; 31. Tax Map - 97-A-16.2 MAP 6, L-9 |
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6. Vanderbilt, Van Houten, etc. Graves
Ridge Road (New City) Congers, NY 9 graves listed 40 x 40 ft. |
Deserted Cemetery,
On road. Fenced in, Cared for on occasionally (2000), Overgrown, 2007.
Lat: 41° 09' 08.01" N, Lon: 73° 57' 07.58" W
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7, V4, p36; 20. Tax Map - 97-A-28.1 MAP 6, L-9 |
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6a. Albert Hopper Farm Cemetery
Clarkstown |
On an Eastern hillock, beside a babbling brook. |
27, p. 128. |
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? 7. Mount Rest Middletown Road and Church Street Nanuet, NY |
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21. MAP 11, J-13 |
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9. Nanuet Cemetery (True Reformed Church)/St Pauls Highview Cemetery Nanuet, NY 170 graves (1825-1969) 200 x 600
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Active, 1967
Also called Cedar Cemetery, Churchyard of the True Reformed Church at Nanuet, NY, The Old Cemetery by the Lutheran Church at Nanuet. SW Corner of Blauvelt Road (sic) and Church Road, Nanuet. SE Corner of South Middletown Road (formerly Main St) and
Church Street, side/rear of gas station. On Middletown Road, opposite former Nanuet Fire Hall.
Oldest Cemetery in group of cemeteries, on NE corner. Private cemetery was owned and maintained by the Nanuet Cemetery Corporation. It was purchased back in the 1800s from the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which is now Saint Paul Lutheran Church in New City. As of Sep 15, 2012, the Nanuet Cemetery will be taken care of and run by the Town of Clarkstown.
Abandoned - contact Clarkstown Town Attorney 10 Maple Ave, New City, NY 845-639-2141
1826, adjoining church built to West, destroyed by fire, 1954. 1895, Property sold to the True Dutch Reformed Church Classis of Hackensack. 1907, Lutheran Church rented church building. 1908, St. Paul's Church bought building. Note land on West of map, along Middletown Road, bought from St Paul's Lutheran Church as County Cemetery area (for burial if indigents). New City, NY 10956 845-634-5574
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/true_reform/index.htmHistory - http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/nanuet.htm link to map.- http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/highview_map/nanuet.htm Photo -
Lat: 41° 04' 50.81" N, Lon: 74° 01' 58.70" W |
2; 4, Vol 2; 7, V4, p. 1-19; 13, # 72; 20, CE; 27, p. 128; 28, p. 425, 29; 30; 31. Tax Map - 13-B-19
MAP 11, J-13 |
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9a. Nanuet Cemetery (New Section) 645 graves 200 x 600 ft. |
Adjoining, south of True Reformed Church Cemetery (now Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery) Office Address As of 2012 - Town of Clarkstown History -
http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/nanuet.htm
Lat: 41° 05' 18" N, Lon: 74° 00' 47" W |
1; 2; 7, V4, p 1-19; 20.
MAP 11, J-13 |
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9c. Rockland County Cemetery
S. Middletown Road and Church Street Nanuet NY. |
Western part of cemetery group containing Nanuet Cemetery and St Paul's Highview Cemetery. Purchased from St Paul's Lutheran Church, owned and maintained by Rockland County as a cemetery for the indigent.
845-735-9090
History - http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/nanuet.htm Lat: 41° 05' 18"N, Lon: 74° 00' 47"W |
MAP 11, J-13
Tax Map - 13-B-19 |
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10. St. Agatha Cemetery Nanuet, NY 170 graves (1891-1984) 200 x 125 ft. |
Active, 1967 St. Agatha Home (Sisters of Charity) Off Duryea Lane (Highland Avenue), about 0.5 mile south of Convent Road
135 Convent Road 845-623-3461 Founded 1891; Nuns, one priest, and a few others |
2; 20, CG; 29; 31. MAP 11, J-14 |
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11. St. Anthony's Church Cemetery 34 West Nyack Road 1899 - present 5 acres |
Active
Next to St. Anthony's Church Rectory 845-623-2138 Formerly called Bardonia Cemetery, on land donated by Bardon family. Started, 1899, as Rockland Calvary Cemetery
Lat: 41° 05' 50.12" N, Lon: 74° 00' 32.25" W |
1; 2; 20, CF; 31. MAP 11, K-11 |
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12. Saint Paul's Highview Cemetery South Middletown Road and Church St Nanuet, NY adj Nanuet Cemetery 300 x 600 ft. |
Active St Paul's Lutheran Church 845-634-5574 SE Corner of Complex of cemeteries, adjoining Nanuet Cemetery, on S. Middletown Road.
Established in 1827, by the True Reformed Church
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/stpaul/index.htm Lat: 41° 08' 11.48" N, Lon: 74° 00' 02.26" W
Lat: 41° 05' 15"N, Lon: 74° 00' 48"W |
1; 20, CL; 30 MAP 11, J-13
Tax Map - 13-B-19 |
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13. Slave Burial Ground South Little Tor Road New City, NY |
Outside fence, South side of Martinus-Hogencamp Cemetery Lat: 41° 08' 11.48" N, Lon: 74° 00' 02.26" W |
21. Tax Map - 37-C-6 MAP 9, K-11 |
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14. Brouwer/Furman Graves 167 South Little Tor Road 4 graves (1876-1881) 10 x 10 ft. |
Abandoned Outside of fence, South of Martinus-Hogencamp Cemetery Lat: 41° 08' 11.48" N, Lon: 74° 00' 02.23 W |
2; 13, #1, 20, #1; 29. Tax Map - 37-C-6 MAP 9, K-11 |
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15. Brouwer/Brower Family Burial Ground 39 West Germonds Road 9 graves (1801-1860) 50 x 50 ft. |
"Abandoned" 1967. Germonds Presbyterian Church, caretaker. 39 West Germonds Road Rear of Germond's Church Cemetery (Kings Highway)
On Kings Highway, at Germonds, East of the Germonds Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Lat: 41° 07' 26.89" N, Lon: 73° 59' 42.20" W |
2; 4, V6, p119; 13, # 32: 20; 31. MAP 9, K-12 |
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16. Conklin/Snedeker/ Springstead Burial Ground New City/Congers, NY 10956 55 x 65 ft 12 graves (1837-1905) |
a.k.a. Snedeker/O'Brien, Snedeker Cemetery
Abandoned Cemetery,
Parcel # 64, Map number 57, Coyles Corners, Short Clove, State Highway 9005. 1963, By court order, remains to be removed and re-buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. On Fred Jones Farm, Long Clove Road, New City (34 graves).
Removed to widen highway (Rt 304?).
Long Clove Road and Allain's Road, North end of Lake DeForest, |
2 (#45); 4 V9; 29. MAP 6, M-9 |
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16a. O'Briens Burial Ground |
Between Long and Short Clove Roads |
29.
MAP 6, M-9 |
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16b. Unknown Cemetery
South of the road from New City to Hempstead
< 1703 or 1708 |
In Clarkstown, on former Jersey property. Probably oldest graveyard in Clarkstown. Includes slave burials. |
27, p. 128; 28, p. 428. |
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17. Davy/Goetschius/ Nash/
Rothhaubt Burial Ground formerly near 647 (or 673) South Mountain Road 4 graves |
Abandoned (dis-interred) Re-interred Brick Church Cemetery, Veterans Memorial Plot.
Germonds Presbyterian Church, caretaker. 39 West Germonds Road Lat: 41° 10' 36.63" N, Lon: 73° 58' 24.45" W |
2, 5. MAP 6, K-8, K-9 |
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17a. Unknown Cemetery
Centenary, NY |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown, no trace.
On the Northeast side of the road which leads from New City to the Haverstraw Road and runs Southeast into Kleibers Place and Congers.
To the Rear of an old foundation, the original Frank Jones Homestead
Near Kleiber's Place, Centenary, NY. |
31 (FF).
MAP 6, M-9 |
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17b. Odell's Burial Plot
Centenary, NY6 graves |
No trace, 1936.
Back of Miss Content's home at the South East corner of stone fence on the South Mountain Road, Centenary. |
31 (H)
MAP 6, L-9 |
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18. Deming Castle 591 South Mountain Road 2 graves |
Abandoned McGuffie Estate property includes the graves of 2 MacGuffie sons.
Germonds Presbyterian Church, caretaker. 39 West Germonds Road ca. Lat: 41° 10' 36.68" N, Lon: 73° 58' 24.45" W |
2. MAP 6, K-8 |
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19. Dutcher Burial Plot 115-137 South Mountain Road 5 graves (1849-1854) 15 x 35 |
Equi-distant West of Central Highway as Lake Lucille is East. South Mountain Rd., near intersection of Central Highway North side of S. Mt. Rd. 1967, Abandoned on Private property, owned by: Dale Robertson (or Marjory Content's Property) 137 South Mountain Road Map available (see Ref 29.) Lat: 41° 11' 04.64"Lon: 74° 00' 31.59" |
2; 13, # 68; 29; 31.
MAP MAP 5, K-8 |
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20. Garrison/Kendall/ Youman Burial Ground Congers Road, New City, NY 16 graves (1825-1921) 75 x 75 ft. |
Abandoned, privately owned
Garrison and Youman's Plot, On Conger/New City Road, directly opposite the Town Hall Building.
Some remains removed. North of Town Office Building, between East and West Evergreen Roads Easterly of 2 cemeteries. Near Trotting Park.
Lat: 41° 08' 50.06" N, Lon: 73° 59' 15.91" W |
2; 7, V3; 13, # 44; 20;. 27, p. 128; 28, p. 428, 29. Tax Map - 58-G-29.1 MAP 9, K-10 |
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20a. Congers Road Cemetery
Congers Road, New City, NY |
Congers Road, East of Main Street (see above?). |
29.
MAP 9, L-10
Tax Map - 58-G-29.1 |
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21. Germonds Presbyterian Church Cemetery West, Adjacent to Germond's Presbyterian Church 39 W. Germonds Road (formerly Church Street) ca. 1200 graves (1860-present) 300 x 1800 ft. |
Active Superintendent 2 Steephill Rd. 845-623-3779 Graves information - Church Secretary @ 845-623-2120 - weekday mornings http://www.germondschurch.org/germonds-cemetery/ Official website including link to spreadsheet of all interments Photos - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=2143620&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=21&
Lat: 41° 07'13.70" N, Lon: 73° 59' 44.12" W |
1; 7, V3, p1-18; 20, CI; 31. MAP 9, K-12 |
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22. Jersey/Stevens/ Helms Burial Ground (Jersey Family Burial Ground) 184 N. Little Tor Road 15 graves (1812-1879) 25 x 50 |
Private, abandoned, 1967. Jersey/Stevens/Helms/Stokum Cemetery(on property formerly of Dr. Bert Feldman), in fields, on left of Little Tor Road, (South of Philips Hill Rd), ca. 0.5 mi NW of New City. East side of Little Tor Road, North about. ° mile from intersection of new Hempstead & Little Tor Roads. New City.
http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/jersey/index.htm
Lat: 41° 09' 54.9" N, Lon: 74° 00' 25.1" W |
2 (#63); 4 V6, p130; 13 # 63; 29; 30, 31. MAP 6, K-10 |
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23. Jones/Green Burial Ground 8 Parkway Drive 33 (or 39) graves (1796-1888) |
Abandoned (Private).
J. J. Green Estate. Former Green Farm, off West Clarkstown Road. About 1 mile S. of the English Church. North of Parkway Drive, West of Hilltop Place. 1979, Boy Scout Eagle project. Also known as Old Myers Farm.
See Find-A-Grave for burial list.
Lat: 41° 08' 41.87" N, Lon: 74° 01' 08.14" W |
2 (#65), 29. Tax Map - 168-A-40 MAP 8, J-10 |
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24. Knapp Burial Plot 1 High Tor Road (Lane) 12 graves - 1848. - 1881 40 x 75 ft
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Abandoned (Private), 1967. Knapp/Van OrdenAdjacent to Van Orden Burial Ground. VFW removed remains from one small cemetery before a McLane house was built nearby, probably to Mount Repose. This was probably the cemetery moved under direction of Supervisor Blauvelt.
Lat: 41° 10' 39.09"N, Lon: 73° 58' 24.94" W |
2 (#50); 4, V7, P265,; 13, # 50; 29; 31. MAP 6, K-9 |
25. Knapp/Nash Burial PlotSouth Mountain Road, New City, NY17 graves (1829-1894)
25 x 50 ft |
Davy/Goetschius/Nash/Rothbut (Rathabut).
North side of South Mountain Road, ° mile West of the M. E. Church at Stagg's Corner. Lost, 1937, Remains removed at the direction of Clarkstown Supervisor, Roswell Blauvelt; re-interred in Hempstead Cemetery (Veteran's Plot, Brick Church Cemetery). Land was privately owned by Fred Seigrist of Clarkstown. |
2 (#43), 29. MAP 6, K-8 |
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26. Martinus-Hogencamp Cemetery 8 South Little Tor Road 334 graves (1723-1987) 200 x 200 ft. |
Active, 1967; now closed to new Burials. South Little Tor Road, Opposite Collyer Ave, next to Park Evangelical Church. May have originally been called Mosestown Cemetery. Martinus-Hogencamp Cemetery Association. Same as Martine in Budke (?) http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/martinus_hogencamp.htm Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1971027&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=41&
Lat: 41° 08' 11.92" N, Lon: 74° 00' 01.46" W |
2 (#2); 4, V2; 20, CH; 21, 29; 31. MAP 9. K-11 |
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27. New City Burial Ground between Wood/Blauvelt Stevens and Garrison/Kendall/ Youmans Burial Grounds Congers Road 47 graves (1733-1863) |
Cemetery removed, 1966, now a small parking lot, North of Town Offices. Location of re-interments unknown, possibly some to the Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Viola.
Lat: 41° 08' 50.09" N, Lon: 73° 59' 16.82" W |
2; 7, V3, p. 21-31; 30. MAP 9, K-10 |
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28. Old Cemetery at New City Opposite Town Hall Congers Road New City, NY 76 graves listed |
Near the Fair Grounds. Same as above, # 27. Lat: 41° 08' 50.59" N, Lon: 73° 59' 17.72" W |
4, V8; 7, V3, p. 31-34; 8; 30. MAP 9, K-10 |
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29. Old Wood Burying Ground New City, NY |
Abandoned Opposite Town Hall, Congers Road. Most Westerly of 3 cemeteries. (See Wood, Blauvelt Stevens (#36.) Lat: 41° 08' 50.02" N, Lon: 73° 59' 15.98" W |
2, 29. MAP 9, K-10 |
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30. Onderdonck Graves Off 189 New Hempstead Road, East of 1 Lyndhaven Drive New City, NY 10956 2 graves (1837-1849) 10 x 10 ft. |
Onderdonk Family Cemetery
Opposite the Alliance Church, grass covered. On South side of New Hempstead Road, opposite John Coyle Home, below English Church, Private Property, owned by: Jeffrey M. Plain 1 Lyndhaven Dr Lat: 41° 08' 8.82" N, Lon: 74° 00' 06.4" W |
2 (#29); 4, V6, p124; 13, # 29; 20; 2; 30. Tax Map - 20-A-27.1 MAP 8, K-10 |
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30b. Burial Ground
District 6 |
Onderdonk, Blauvelt, Van Houten. |
27, p. 128. |
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30c. Onderdonk Graves |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown
On Wilbur Farm, Ws 202 100' from 202 1200" east on Stewart Smith is Conklin Cemetery
Same as above? |
31 (?). |
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30d. Old Smith Cemetery
Off Buena Vista Road New City, NY |
Abandoned. West of Buena Vista Road, between Old Phillips Hill Road and Conklin Road. Near rock wall behind houses. 1942 map. Near Concklin & Buena Vista Roads, New City. |
13, # 88; 29.
MAP 5, J-9 |
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31. Summit Park Cemetery 680 New Hempstead Rd. 87 of 863 graves listed. 200 x 200 ft. |
Active. Incorporated 1881, as Summit Park Cemetery, originally Johnson Family Burial Ground, from 1831, on Shadyside Farm. First 11 burials were Johnson family members. 1980, sales of plots was discontinued by Trustees. Summit Park Cemetery, Inc. 1 mi. West of Rt. 45, on Hempstead-New City Road, just east of Pennington Way.
Photo -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1046503&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=101&
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/summit/summit_park.htm
Lat: 41° 09' 02.98" N, Lon: 74° 02' 76.00" W |
1; 2, 4, V7, p. 207; 20, RC; 29; 31. MAP 8, H-10 |
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32. Trumper/Van Orden Off Old Rt 304 (Short Clove Rd) at Knapp Lane, opp # 314 Centenary, (New City) NY 23 graves (1847-1918) 125 x 75 ft. |
Abandoned, 1967
Trumper's Plot. Van Orden Burial Ground.Abandoned, N side of road (on hill) near Stagg's Corner, in Clarkstown. On a knoll, just East of the Centenary Grocery Store, at South Mountain Road. And Knapp Lane, across from # 314 South Mountain Road. (Short Clove Rd.)
On the North side of Short Clove Road, running West near a grocery store. http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/trumper.htm
Lat: 41° 10' 37" N, Lon: 73° 57' 58" W |
2, (#49); 4, V6, p107; 13, # 34; 20, 29; 31. MAP 6, L-9 |
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32a. Unknown Local Cemetery |
On Long Clove Road, near Pye's Saw Mill.
Long Clove Rd, near Ridge Rd. Might be Brisley Plot (same location). 1. Joseph Moore Place; 2. On Conner Place; 3, On Henning Place. |
13, # ***; 28, p. 428.
MAP 6, L-9 |
32b. Unknown Cemetery |
On the road from Waldberg (now Congers United Methodist) Church to Pye's Saw Mill, some 600 yards West of the Church, |
28, p. 428.
MAP 9 |
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32c. Unknown Cemetery on Onderdonk Property |
On both sides of the road from Rockland Lake to Valley Cottage. |
28, p. 428. |
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32d. Unknown Cemetery |
East side of the mountain road, formerly called Lyon's Hill Road, near its junction with the mountain road that leads from Upper Nyack to Valley Cottage. |
28, p. 428. |
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32e. Unknown Cemetery |
On the South side of King's Highway, between John Storm's old hotel and Valley Cottage. |
28, p. 428.
MAP 9, M-12 |
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32f. Unknown Negro Burial Ground
West Nyack, NY
200 x 150 ft. |
West of the Hackensack Swamp, and North of the Turnpike. (see Mount Moor?)
Colored Cemetery, 400' North on Wagon Road leading from Scotty's Tavern, West Nyack. |
20, CD; 28, p. 428; 31.
MAP 9, N-11 |
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32g. Tolstoy
41 Lake Road Valley Cottage, NY |
Cemetery at Tolstoy Foundation. |
29.
MAP 9, N-12 |
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33h. Family Graves
Germonds Road New City, NY |
Abandoned, < 1936.
A few unmarked graves not now visible on the Budke Property in Germonds (Clarkstown). |
31 (D).
MAP 9, L-12 |
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33i. Davies Burial Ground |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown
Three graves, a family plot on Dr. Davies place in Congers. |
31 (E).
MAP 9, N-12 |
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33j. O'Dells |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown |
31 (H). |
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33k. Unknown Plot
3 graves |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown; No trace
On Crossman or Pomona Road , on Mrs. Fleishman's Property |
31 (I) |
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33l. Small Burying Ground |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown, No trace.
On Fred Carnochan's Property. |
31 (J).
MAP 9, L-10 |
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33. Van Houten Family Burial Plot East of # 87 Ridge Road 49 x 40 ft
10 graves (1844-1907) |
Van Houten Family (Private) ON S side of road, diagonally opposite Van Houten-Howard Graves. Lat: 41° 09' 56.09" N, Lon: 73° 57' 43.60" W
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2; 4, V6, p105, 13, #26; 29. MAP 6, L-9 |
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34. Van Houten/Howard Burial Ground 74 Ridge Road 6 graves (1841-1890) |
Private Property, owned (1976) by: Mr. and Mrs. Herb Partridge 74 Ridge Road Lat: 41° 09' 45.83" N, Lon: 73° 57' 45.96" W |
2; 4, V6, p104. MAP 6, L-9. |
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34a. Van Orden Burial Ground 1 High Tor Road near former Centenary M.E. Church 2 graves (1833-1908) 40 x 75 ft
28 graves listed |
Abandoned (Private), about 500 ft north of the Road. Adjacent to Knapp Cemetery. At Stagg's Corner, McLane Property. Half-way up hill from the VFW Hall, behind a house. On South Mt Road, West side of High Tor Lane, behind home of Fred Siegriest, New City, West of Centenary ME Church.
http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/vanorden.htm
Lat: 41° 10' 41.52" N, Lon: 73° 58' 03.92" W |
2; 4 V9; 13, # 39; 29. MAP 6, L-9 |
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35. William's Grave Rear of 3 Muller Court 1 grave (1902) 4 x 8 |
Sisters of St Augustine's Catholic Church Rear of Former Sister's Home, SE of Court House. Not found. Reputed to be Prisoner's grave.
Prisoner's Grave - ° mi S W of Court House, directly back of St. Augustine' Sister's Home.
Lat: 41° 08' 06.60 N, Lon: 73° 59' 06.82" W |
2; 13, # 83; 29. MAP 9. K-10 |
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36. Wood/Blauvelt/ Stevens BG New City, NY 29 graves (1733-1863) |
Private, Abandoned. Westerly of 2 remaining cemeteries. North side, Congers Road,
between East and West Evergreen Roads, Opposite Town Office Building. 2003 clean-up by members of New City United Methodist Church. June 2003, purchased by Town of Clarkstown. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1782026&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=121&
Lat: 41° 08' 08.37" N, Lon: 73° 59' 02.97" W |
2; 27, p. 128. MAP 9, K-10 |
37. Yeomans/Townsend/ Herme Burial GroundNew City, NY 8 graves (1863-1908) 15 x 25 ft. |
New City and Conger Road Cemetery (near Tunis Corner), Townsend Cemetery 121 Ridge Road Directly North of Van Houten Plot on Ridge Road.
William and Julia Berkery 121 Ridge Road (South Side) Lat: 41° 09' 55.95" N, Lon: 73° 57' 43.82" W |
2; 4, V6, p106; 13, # 31; 20; 29. MAP 6, L-9 |
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38. Youmans Graves South Mountain Road, New City, NY 2 graves (1832-1854) |
Rear of former Centenary ME Church, later VFW Hall. (2 graves back of Centenary M E Church).
Lat: 41° 10' 37.85" N, Lon: 73° 57' 49.86" W |
2; 13, # 58. MAP 6, L-9 |
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39. Small Graveyard Clarkstown |
N side of South Mountain Road, near Stagg's Corner. Probably same as Trumper/Van Orden (# 32, above). |
4, V6, p106. MAP 6, L-9 |
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40. Gethsemane Cemetery 310' North of Rockland Lake State Park, off loop road Rockland Lake, NY 168 graves (1905-present) 500 x 500 ft. |
Active
St Paul's Church (successor to St Michael's, of Rockland Lake and St Theresa's, of Valley Cottage). 82 Lake Road West 845-268-4464 Small burial ground in wooded area to rear and East of cemetery.(31 (M), No trace, 1936.
Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=64636&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=21&
Lat: 41° 08' 44.95" N, Lon: 73° 55' 02.10" W |
2 (#39); 20, CJ; 26, 29; 31; 31 (M). Tax Map - 154-A-48 MAP 9, L-10 |
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41. Perry/Tremper Burial Ground 15 graves (1829-1914) |
Same as Quaspeck Cemetery. Lost, exact location unknown, probably landlocked area between 5 houses. On W side of road from S end of Rockland Lake to Valley Cottage, short distance from shore, in sight of lake. May have been buried under Rt 9W. |
2; 5, V9, 29. MAP 9, N-11 |
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42. Wells Family Burial Ground Rockland Lake, NY 50 x 50
21 graves (1831-1874) |
Private, Abandoned, 1967. Palisades Interstate Park Commission Rockland Cemetery?
An enclosure about 30 square on Rockland Lake Road, on a hill behind M. E. Church. Half-cast iron fence. Landing Road, Off Lake Road, Rockland State Park North of Knickerbocker Fire House
Site of M.E. Church.
Lat: 41° 08' 35.72" N, Lon: 73° 54' 47.53" W |
2 (#32); 5, V9; 13, #47; 31. MAP 9, N-11
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42a. |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown, no trace 1936.
In back of Hoberg barn, North end of Rockland Lake. |
31 (O). |
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42b.
Rockland Lake, NY |
Abandoned, No visible plots
On Thomas Waigan (?) Property, several children's burials. |
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42a. Black Cemetery Upper Nyack
South side of Mountain Road |
Abandoned, < 1936. (Slave Cemetery), no trace, 1936. Immediately West of Old School Building, and between it an Midland Ave. |
28, p. 348; 31 (N). MAP 13, N-12 |
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43. M. Cornelison property Nyack area, near Upper Nyack Cemetery |
Records lost. Black Cemetery
South side of Old Mountain Road, Upper Nyack. 400 ft West of Upper Nyack Burying Ground, and the East side of Midland Ave.
No gravestones have been found, houses built on part of the site, may have been removed to Oak Hill. |
2; 28, p. 348. MAP 13, N-12 |
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43a. Cemetery on the Chapel Grounds, of Roman Catholic College
Off North Broadway Upper Nyack, NY |
During construction of college (never completed), on former property of George Green, several construction workers died and were buried in the yard of the Chapel they were building, 1832. When the college building burned the project was discontinued and most of the remains were removed . |
28, p. 348.
MAP 9, N-12 |
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44. Old Upper Nyack Cemetery (Old Palmer Buryial Ground) 140 Old Mountain Road, just West (300 ft) of North Broadway Upper Nyack ca. 1730 - ca. 1867
66 graves (1731 - 1862) 125 x 125 ft. |
Abandoned, (< 1936), on old dirt road off Broadway, owned by Village of Upper Nyack.
Also known as Old Mountain Road Cemetery, Established 1731, on the farm of Cornelis Claessen Kuyper. His stone and wife's.
http://nyackhistory.org/markers.htm Restored - ca. 2012. 55 recorded graves and 18 unmarked stones Lat: 41° 06' 22.33" N, Lon: 73° 55' 04.19" W |
2; 7, V2, p. 1-2; 13, # 11; 21; 27, p. 128; 28, p. 347, 29; 31.
Tax Map - 149-D-7 MAP 13, N-12 |
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45. Burial Ground (God's Acre) Upper Nyack, NY |
North end of Broadway, Upper Nyack, on a hillside, NW of the turnaround at the North end of Broadway. On Marydell Institute Property and maintained by the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine until 1961. Burial site for members of the order. Property sold in 1961. Remains of Nuns removed to Ascension Cemetery, Monsey, NY, and remains of employees removed to St Anthony's, Nanuet. |
4, V6, p115; 31 (K). MAP 9, N-12 |
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46. Johnson Burial Ground 543 Mountain View Avenue Valley Cottage, NY 14 graves (1813-1899) 50 x 50 |
Private, Abandoned (Owner Unknown), 1967 Not located - 2012
Large obelisk in center of plot.
543 Mountain View Avenue, South of Christian Herald Road,
100 ft south of water tower, West of small pond
On the Mountain Road, leading West from 9W, near Christian Herald Building. |
2 (#51); 5, V9; 13, # 51; 29; 31.
Tax Map - 122-B-14.2 MAP 13, N-13 |
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47. Barmore Family Burial Ground Valley Cottage, NY 4 graves (1838-1869) 15 x 15 ft. |
Lost (see Quaspeck Cemetery). Was there 1958-60, gone by 1962. Maybe not!
Location has been lost, probably off Lake Road and Valley Road; On former Barmore Farm On James Nagel Property. On road leading from S end of Rockland Lake to Valley Cottage, E of road, Reed Property, in Carriage Hill Development.
Disappeared by 1962.
On the Reed Property, East side of Rd. from Rockland Lake to Valley Cottage. |
2; 4, V9; 13, # 45; 20, 29. MAP 9, N-11 |
48. Lake Avenue Chapel Off Lake Road 5 graves (1854-1879), only 1 found 15 x 15
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Abandoned (Private), 1967, At rear of Chapel, (not in existence) only 1 stone remaining in 1988. East side of the driveway (at # 489 Lake Avenue), ca, 100 ft East of a house and former hotel, on a small knoll. Just West of Rt 303. Old Lake Avenue Chapel. Felter and Smith families.
On east side of Lake Rd, short distance north-east of Intersection, 303 and Lake Road, Valley Cottage.
just West of Rt 303 intersection; opposite Elim Gospel Church
Lat: 41° 07' 07.59" N, Lon: 73° 56' 05.79" W. |
2, 13, # 56; 29; 31. MAP 9, M-12 |
48a. Quaspeck CemeteryOff (128A) Lake Road and Valley Road, Valley Cottage, NY
Ca. 60 x 80 ft (120 x 150 ft)
Ca. 15 graves, no stones 1829 - 1914 |
Perry/Tremper Burial GroundAbandoned, Destroyed, stones missing. Behind houses in development, Quaspeck Park Homes. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&Gscid=1990478 |
29. Tax Map - 138-P-24
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49. Snyder Cemetery Valley Cottage, NY Semi-active 143 graves (1773-1976) 150 x 150 ft. |
Active Snyder Cemetery Association Land donated by Hercules Ryder.
West Side of Kings Highway (# 550), Lat: 41° 06' 38.77" N, Lon: 73° 57' 01.54" W |
2; 4, V6, p120; 20, CK; 29: 31. Tax Map - 108-B-15 MAP 9, M-12 |
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50. Clarkstown Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery 275 graves (from 1705) 100 x 350 ft. |
In limited current use Clarkstown CemeteryClarkstown Reformed Church Office 107 Strawtown Rd. 845-358-4320 Adj to site of original church; East side of Germonds Road, just S of Bardonia Road, N of Huested Lane Directly West of Clarkstown Church on Germonds Road, North side of road.
Cemetery cared for by the Peachey Family and the West Nyack Swim and Tennis Club.
Also called Germonds Road Cemetery, First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Hempstead Churchyard. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=2220149&Cscnty=2021&
Lat: 41° 06' 33.76" N, Lon: 73° 58' 54.13" W |
1; 2; 4, V2;13, # 56; 21, 29; 31. MAP 9, L-12 |
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51. Clarkstown Reformed Church Death Records |
see Budke Collection |
5, V9. |
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52. Mount Moor Cemetery
(Formerly Benson's Colored Cemetery)
North of Rt 59 82 graves (1848-1986) 200 x 150 ft. |
Active Originally owned by Trustees of the Burying Ground for Colored People. Colored Cemetery, West Nyack Mount Moor Cemetery Association, Inc. (since 1940) 1 Milford La. In Parking lot of Palisades Center Mall Active, Black Cemetery
Listed - NRHP
Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1196802&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=41&
History -
http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/mtmoor/moor.htm
Lat: 41° 05' 44.71" N, Lon: 73° 57' 32.30" W |
1; 2; 4, V6, p131; 20, CB; 21, 29; 31. Tax Map - 89-A-13 MAP 11, M-13 |
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53. Nyack Rural Cemetery North Side, Rt 59 West of Lumber Co, up hill Central Nyack, NY
268 graves (1837-1977) 2600 x 300 ft. |
Established June 1887. East of Levison's Corner, Central Nyack. Was maintained by Andy Thompson, of Nanuet, who died ca. 2012. Oak Hill Cemetery had agreed to maintain the site. "Ownership has been turned over to the town" (Clarkstown) according to Nancy Raffaele 2012.05.02. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=2243480&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=61&
http://nyackbackyard.blogspot.com/2009/06/hidden-graveyard-hike-nyack-rural.html
http://jschumacher.typepad.com/joe/2004/03/rural_cemetery_.html
Lat: 41° 05' 37.29" N, Lon: 73° 56' 30.77" W |
1; 2; 7, V2, p5-9; 20, CA, CC; 30. Tax Map - 120-A-33.2 MAP 11, M-13 |
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54. Nyack Rural Cemetery North side, Rt 59, East of Lumber Co 67 graves |
"Ownership has been turned over to the town" (Clarkstown) according to Nancy Raffaele 2012.05.02. Lat: 41° 05' 40.52" N, Lon: 73° 56' 25.63" W |
2; 7, V7, p5-6; 20. MAP 11, M-13. |
TOWN OF HAVERSTRAW |
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55. Small Burial Plot, Family Burial Ground Garnerville, NY |
Smith Burial Ground? No trace. On homestead of Dr. Allen, North side of the road from Haverstraw to Mt. Ivy, a short distance west of the corner formed by the intersection of that road and the road passing School #3 in Garnerville, Meads Corners. In a field, opposite School #3. (See Brewster and Burns Graves (# 60). |
4, V6, p124; 31 (C); 32: BC-42 |
55a. Public CemeteryCalico Hill Garnerville, NY 72 graves (1825-1853)* 100 x 150 ft. |
Public, Abandoned (Garnerville, near W. Haverstraw RR Station). (See Calico Hill Cemetery, # 58). On former Peck estate , Samsondale. Land given by Elisha Peck. Founded as the burial ground for the First Presbyterian Church of Haverstraw. ? Lat: 41° 12' 30.53" N, Lon: 73° 58' 52.79" W |
19; 32, 33. MAP 6, L-7 |
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57. Small Graveyard Garnerville, NY |
E end of the printworks, site of 1790 Presbyterian Church. Probably the original cemetery, 16 ft square,. (see next, # 58) |
4, V6, p109; 32. MAP 6. K-7 |
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58. Calico Hill Cemetery (Old Presbyterian Churchyard) 31 West Railroad Avenue and Andrews Drive Garnerville, NY 72 stones 150 x 150 ft. |
Abandoned. Village of West Haverstraw, 1966 clean-u[p
Same as # 57? 1966, restored by Town Board East of Print works Garnerville. On site of the Presbyterian Church (built 1790, and later church, 1848-9). Formerly Peck Estate known as Samsondale.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=2390555&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=61&
Lat: 41° 12' 31.77" N, Lon: 73° 59' 18.16" W |
13, # 57; 20; 27, p. 166, 29; 32. WPA; BC-42. MAP 6. K-7 |
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59. Felter and Gurnee Plots (Meads Corners) Garnerville, NY 11 graves (1817-1879)* 10 x 5 ft |
Private, Abandoned, Removed Off Rt 202, Burns Hill, Garnerville.
Now Shortline Trucking facility. Stones were uncovered during construction. Burials originally removed to Mt. Repose in 1918 (Newly found stones/burials removed to Mount Repose, 1959/60).
Some stones removed to an unspecified cemetery before Budke did his survey. |
4, Vol 6, p.99; 19; 32. |
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60. Brewster and Burns Graves 69 North Main Street Garnerville, NY 4 graves (1794-1798) 50 x 50 ft |
Private, Abandoned Opposite School # 3, Garnerville.
North side of the road fropm Haverstraw to Ramapo, opposite the house of the heirs of David Burns. Lorillard family founder is purported to be buried there. Grave of Phebe Smith Part of Burns Farm Under driveway, between 2 houses, was family farm. |
4, Vol 6, p. 124; 19; 32; WPA. MAP 6, K-7 |
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60a. Methodist Church Cemetery
Garnerville/Haverstraw, NY |
Blanch Memorial Chapel, built 1913.
Church is located on Fourth Street, Garnerville, built over cemetery, which was removed to Mount Repose, one grave reputed to remain under church, in Samsondale, when, in 1840, the others were removed when the "new" Methodist Church (recently torn down), was built. The old cemetery remains were removed to Mount Repose and the "new" church was built on the site |
32; BC-42. |
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61. Graveyard in Field
60 graves |
South side of the road forming the division line between Haverstraw and Stony Point, ca. 0.5 mi N of Thiells Station. (See Phillips/Knapp Cemetery, # 80) |
4, V6, p92; 19, 20. |
62. Baum Family PlotHaverstraw, NY 0.5 acre |
Active, 1967. Oldest known Jewish cemetery in Rockland Co. Rt 9W, off Route 202, SE of St. Peter's (115 Hillside Ave), Surrounded by St Peter's Cemetery.
Lat: 41° 11' 43.22" N, Lon: 73° 58' 22.30" W |
13, H31; 20, HI; 29; 31; 32. MAP 6, L-8 |
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63. Benson Burial Plot Haverstraw, NY 3 graves in a field (1813-1835), 5 stones. 10 x 10 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. Dec 2011 - current owner seeking to remove remains in order to sell property. In woods off Rt 202, near Industrial Plant (Casso-Solar).
100 paces from road opposite parking lot. |
13, # 33; 20; 32; WPA #33. |
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63a. Buchanan-Johnson
Gurnee's Corner, NY
3 fieldstones |
Aka Benson Burial Ground (# 63)
Abandoned, lost < 1936.? Hidden in overgrowth.
Three graves in a field on the West side of the road from Haverstraw to Mt. Ivy, (Rt 202) and about one-half mile west of Gurnee's Corner in Haverstraw.. Between Garnerville and Mt. Ivy.
Approximately 70 yards NW of intersection of Rt 202 and Cambridge Plaza.
No tombstones |
32; BC-42, 33. |
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64. Congregation Sons of Jacob Haverstraw, NY 1 acre |
Active, 1967. 2 Sections Rt 202 (167 Westside Ave), adjacent to Mt Repose
Lat: 41° 11' 48.08" N, Lon: 73° 58' 40.89" W |
20, HH; 29; 31; 32. MAP 6, L-8 |
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65. Felter Family Burial Plot Haverstraw Twp |
N side of the road, top of the second hill, W of the intersection of the road from Haverstraw to Mt Ivy and the road passing School #3, at Garnerville. Sames as Felter/Gurnee (# 59). |
4, V6, p99. |
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66. Single Grave (Smith Grave)
Haverstraw, NY |
Abandoned < 1936. Phebe Smith. (see # 60). Former burial ground on the N side of road from Haverstraw to Mt Ivy, a short distance W of the intersection above. |
4, V6, p100; 31 ( R); 32. |
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67. St. Peter's Cemetery 75 N. Rt. 9W 12 acres |
Active St. Peter's RC Church 845-429-4811 Ground purchased, 1877 (from Mount Repose?); Opened 1880, adjacent to Mt. Repose. Originally behind the present St. Peter's Church. Graves removed to new cemetery.
The old cemetery was on both sides of Ridge Street, where the Catholic School is now, and under the parking lot. When the old school was torn down in the 1960's, and the blacktop of the playground was tron up, many gravestones were found. Homes may have been built over other graves. The stones and grave's contents were to have been removed to the new cemetery. http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/st_peters.htm
Lat: 41° 11' 46.24" N, Lon: 73° 58' 20.73" W |
1,3; 20, HG; 29; 31; 32. MAP 6, L-8 |
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68. 3 graves Haverstraw Twp |
In a field, W side of road from Haverstraw to Mt Ivy, 0.5 mi E of Gurnee's Corner. |
4, V6, p100. |
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69. 4 graves Haverstraw Twp. |
In a field, W of the road along the mountain, 1 mi W of Thiells Station. |
4, V6, p100; 31 (B).. |
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70. Family Burial Plot
Stony Point, NY |
W of road from Stony Point to Haverstraw, at top of hill, where road rises for crossing ravine of Cedar Pond Brook, south of the ravine. |
4, V6, p135. |
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71. Mount Repose Cemetery Rts 9W and 202 Haverstraw, NY 1780-present > 4000 burials. 45 graves listed in Budke 40 acres (1852 - ) |
Active Haverstraw's Gods Acre. Originally purchased for the Methodist Church, from Asbury DeNoyelles and used as their burying ground. Cemetery dedicated July 7, 1853. Remains from Old Allison Burying Ground (oldest stone, 1765), by the river removed here. 1882, purchased by C. R. Conger. Sold and incorporated, 1904, as Mt. Repose Cemetery Inc. Below High Tor Mountain, Rts 202 and 79 N Rt 9W Over 20.000 burials. Rtes. 202 & 9W 845-429-8383 http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/mt_repose.htm
Lat: 41° 11' 49.46" N, Lon: 73° 58' 32.09" W |
1; 4, V9; 7, V5, p1-82; 20, H1; 21; 27, p. 175, 29; 30; 31; 32, BC-42. MAP 6, L-8 |
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71a. Old DeNoyelles Burial Ground Haverstraw, NY 12 graves |
Abandoned Formerly on a high hill at the Riverbank at Haverstraw, South end of Haverstraw. A little South of the Family home.Demolished. Brick work properties |
4, V6, p9727, p. 183.30; 31 (A); 32; BC-42. |
71b. Burns Family Plot |
North side of the road from Haverstraw to Ramapo, opposite the house of David Burns. Stones removed by a later owner and placed along the wall around the lot.
The ancestor of the Lorillard family is said to have been buried there. |
27, p. 175; 32. |
71c. Haverstraw Cemetery |
(Munn) |
27, p. 186. |
71d. Allison Burying GroundOn the Neck, near Minisceongo Creek |
Allison Family Cemetery.
Abandoned, remains probably removed to Mount Repose, ca. 1853. Property my have been consumed by clay mining for Brick Works. Property now part of Bowline Park, Haverstraw.
Allison's Neck, near Miniseongo.
Between Beach Street and Peck's Railroad, Haverstraw., on Allison Farm. |
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72. Abandoned Cemetery Call Hollow Road near Dan Conklin place, Camp Hill 25 x 20 ft. |
Abandoned. No markers or inscription. Only plain, flat stones. |
13, # 85; 20; 32.
WPA-86. |
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73. Barnes Family Burial Plot Thiells Corners, NY 20 graves (1826-1888)* 35 x 35 ft |
Barns Family Burial Ground, Barnes/Thiells, Barnes-Thiells Family. Private, Abandoned, 1967. 2007 Boy Scout Gold Award Project cleaned and restored cemetery. 0.75 mi N of Thiells Corners, on a turn of the highway, S and E of the road. Thiells/Willow Grove Road.
300 ft NE of Filor's Lane, (40 ft West of road, surrounded by high cedar trees), off Thiells Road formerly Grayridge Farm, Don Bosco Property. Now in the middle of a housing development 2000 Eagle Scout Project, 2003 poor condition.. In a field about ° mi. N. of Thiells corners. At a turn in the road on the south & east side of the road.
Rev Robert Burns, Pastor of the English Church and later the Haverstraw Presbyterian Church was buried there with his wife.
Formerly on Marian Shrine/Don Bosco Property, now in housing development, Originally Grayridge Farm, and Burns Farm. 1999 Eagle Scout Project. |
4, V6, p141; 13, # 40; 19; 20; 31; 32; BC-42; WPA-89. |
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74. Barnes & Thiells Family Burial Ground Thiells, NY
12 graves 40 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, 1967. Barnes/Thiells/De La Montanye Family Burial Ground 40 W. of road surrounded by high cedar trees.
300 ft NE of Filor's Lane, 40 ft W of road
(same as above ?) |
13, # 89; 20; 31. MAP 3, K-6; MAP 3, J-6 |
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75. Family Burial Ground Thiells, NY 12 graves |
In a field, W side of road from Stony Point to Thiells, ca. 1 mi N of Thiells. Same as Jones/Allison/Bulson Burial Ground (see # 205). |
4, V6, p143; 30. |
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75a. Private Burial Ground
Thiells, NY |
Top of hill, NW from the mill at Thiell's Corners. Several stones readable. |
27, p. 183. |
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76. Burial Plot
15 graves |
In a field, a few hundred ft E of the road running from Thiells Corners and about 0.25 mi N of the corner. Jones/Knapp/Phillips/Dater Burial Plot; Thiells, Jones, Knapp and Dater. Grounds of North Rockland High School. (see # 85). |
4, V6, p144; 30. |
77. Burial Ground4 graves |
Abandoned, Thiells, NY, Burial plot in the field a few hundred feet east of the road running north from Thiells Corners and about one fourth of a mile north of the corners On hillside, a few hundred ft NW of the Mill and on the N side of the road leading up the hill. Dater/Marks/Rose Burial Ground. |
4, v6, p145; 30; 32. |
77a. Thiells & McKensie10 x 10 |
Thiells (See # 84) |
13, # 15. |
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78. Letchworth Valley Group 6 graves (1916-1917)* 30 x 30 ft. |
Letchworth Village Burial Site. Private, Abandoned. (Lost). 700' N. of Cottage T & 400' north of Dirt Road, on Cheesecote Mountain. |
13, # 96; 19; 20; 30; 32; WPA 96. |
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79. Letchworth Village Cemetery Smith Place Willow Grove/Stony Point 1018 burials 100 x 800 ft. |
Old Letchworth Village Burial Ground. Active, 1967, burials ceased. A new graveyard (Call Hollow Graveyard) was opened in 1967, using headstones (550 graves). There were also some burials "on the mountain". (Letchworth Valley Group, # 78.) 1800 ft NW of Call Hollow and (Willow Grove) Haverstraw Town Roads. On a dirt road. Smith Place, in the woods off Calls Hollow Road, Haverstraw. Graves marked by T-shaped, numbered zinc markers. Memorial Plaque listing names installed in 2008. http://abandonednyc.com/2012/08/05/legend-tripping-in-letchworth-village/ http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8150/7664049246_f82c9d46a1_b.jpg http://abandonednyc.com/2012/08/05/legend-tripping-in-letchworth-village/grave-marker2/ http://an-image-caught-in-time.tumblr.com/image/30118746256 Lat: 41° 13' 31.76" N, Lon: 74° 01' 59.19" W |
20, HE; 30; 31; 32. MAP 3, H-6 |
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79a. Letchworth II
Oldest stone - Sep 1967 |
A recent, active cemetery on Thiells-Mount Ivy Road, opposite Golf Course, and next to the Highway Department Depot. Directly opposite Ridge Road. |
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80. Phillips and Knapp 22 Birch Drive Thiells, NY 35 Graves (1796-1905)* 100 x 25 ft |
Abandoned - Town of Haverstraw
Phillips-Knapp Family Cemetery Phillips Knapp Family Association Opened late 1700's. Restored by the Phillips Knapp Association, 1905, and maintained by Town of Haverstraw. Exit 14, PIP. Willow Grove Road, to right turn on a bend in Birch Drive, Thiells, NY. (South side) just off Call Hollows Road, Thiells, NY.)? S. side of Hammond Rd. about ° mi. north of Thiells Post Office, Letchworth Village (Birch Drive) Reported to have been desecrated by a bulldozer, August 2004. Knapp Private Cemetery, at Stony Point, adjoining Letchworth Village, near Thiells, NY. Burials -
http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/phil_knapp/index.htm http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/phillips_kna/index.htm
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Lat: 41° 13' 05" N, Lon: 74° 01' 22" W |
13, # 14; 19, 29; 31; 32; BC-42. MAP 5, J-7 |
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81. Phillips Burial Grounds Thiells 60 graves (1828-1905) 125 x 100 ft. |
Public, Abandoned. Philips Burial Ground
In woods? 1500' N. of intersection of Stony Point Town & Hammond Roads. ? Lat: 41° 13' 31.28" N, Lon: 74° 00' 48.64" W |
13, # 100; 19; 20; 32. MAP 3, J-7 |
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82. Rall Burial Plot Letchworth Village, Haverstraw, NY 4 graves (1820-1831)* 20 x 20 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, 1967. 200 ft. from Infirmary. No stones. In a field west of the road along the mountain about 1 mile west of Thiells Station in Haverstraw.Twp |
13, # 97: 19; 20; 31; 31 (B); 32; BC-42; WPA |
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83. Mary E. Secor Grave Letchworth Village Thiells, NY 3 graves (1851)* 25 x 25 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, Destroyed.
On Letchworth Village Property. |
13, # 85; 19; 20; 30; 32; WPA-85. |
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84. Thiells and McKensie Thiells Corner, NY 4 graves (1828-1844) 10 x 10 ft |
Thiells-McKenzie; McKensie-Thiells Burial Ground. Private, Abandoned. Top of the hill, NW from the mill at Thiell's Corner.
At Thiells, on a hillside, a few hundred feet northwest of the hill and on the north side of the road leading up the hill. Overgrown.
Abandoned Burial Ground at Thiells, Rockland County, NY, being on the hillside a few hundred feet Northeast of the Mill Road on the North side of the road leading up the hill. The spot is overgrown with bushes and the two stones I found are lying flat. |
19; 20; 32, BC-42. |
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85. Thiells, Jones, Knapp and Dater Graves Thiells, NY 4 (or 19) graves (1828-1838) 20 x 20 ft |
Jones/Dater/Knapp/Burial Ground.
Jones/Knapp/Dater Burial Plot Private, Abandoned. Burial plot in the field a few hundred feet East of the road running North from Thiells Corners and about one fourth of a mile North of the corner. On North Rockland High School, 106 Hammond Road, Thiells
(See # 86) Lat: 41° 13' 17" N, Lon: 74° 02' 34" W (USGS) |
19; 32; BC-42. |
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86. Jones & Knapp
Field E of Hammond Rd, N Rockland School Dist Property, Thiells 1811- 25 x 25 ft. or 100 x 100 |
Jones-KnappAbandoned (same as above ?) Burial plot in the field a few hundred feet east of the road running North from Thiells Corners and about one forth of a mile North of the corners. Property formerly part of Letchworth Village. In a field east of Hammond Rd. on property of North. Rockland School Dist, in middle of site. 106 Hammond Road.
? Lat: 41° 12' 57.06" N, Lon: 74° 00' 48.13" W |
13, # 25; 20; 32. MAP 3, J-7 |
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87. Babcock Grave Willow Grove, now Stony Point, NY 1 grave (1853) 8 x 4 ft. |
Babcock Family Burial Ground. Private, Abandoned, < 1936, no trace, in weeds. Adjacent to 13, # 53 (WPA-53). At Beaver Pond, on the Haverstraw-Stony Point Line. |
13, # 54; 19; 30; 31, 31 (EE); 32; WPA-54. |
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87a. Cemetery Opposite the Lake. |
Abandoned < 1936, no trace.
On the Crickettown Road about a quarter mile West from the intersection of Wayne Avenue and Crickettown road. On Rabinoff Property, Stony Point, NY |
31 (F); 31 (Y).
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87b. David Springsteel Farm
269 Franck Road Stony Point, NY |
Abandoned < 1936.
Franck Road at Bulsontown Road, covered by electric poles.
Aka Adams Meadow.
Opposite lake near Springsteel Farm, Stony Point, NY.
Possible Indian Graves. Lost. |
31 (Y); 32. |
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87c. |
Abandoned < 1936, no trace.
On Tomkins Property. |
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87d. Caton/Babcock |
Crickettown Road, Stony Point. Owner, Hoyt |
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88. Blauvelt/ Tallman Graves Blauvelt, NY 6 graves listed 8 graves (1797-1837)* 32 x 51 ft. |
Tallman-Blauvelt Burial Ground. Tallman Burial Plot; E of and near the tracks of the West Shore RR, about 0.5 mi N of Blauvelt Station, W of Rt 303. At NW edge of Ford Dealership, in woods at fence. W. of 303 and adjoining Railway Express Office.
Lat: 41° 04' 21.45" N, Lon: 73° 57' 06.20" W |
4, V9; 7, V4, p. 24-30; 13, # 52; 19; 20, 29; 30; 31. MAP 11, M-15 |
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89. Greenbush Presbyterian Churchyard Western Highway Blauvelt, NY 111 graves listed 250 x 250 ft. |
Active, 1967. Also called Blauvelt Cemetery Next to Church.
photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1660186&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=21&
Lat: 41° 03' 56.87" N, Lon: 73° 57' 29.90" W |
5, V7, p194; 7, V4, p 24-30; 20, CE; 27; 31. MAP 11, M-15 |
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90. Temple Israel Memorial Park of Nyack
55 Van Wyck Road Blauvelt, NY Ca. 300 x 550 ft |
Active, 1967 Sons of Israel Cemetery.
Adjoining St. Catharine's Cemetery (see below) Lat: 41° 03' 26.43" N, Lon: 73° 58' 15.05" W |
20, CD; 23, 29; 31.
MAP 11, L-15, MAP 12, L-15 |
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91. St. Catharine's Cemetery 67 Van Wyck Ave at Blauvelt Road, South of Parkway (Orangeville) Blauvelt, NY 400 x 500 ft. |
Active, 1967; established 1868. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=65943&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=81&
Lat: 41° 03' 28.02" N, Lon: 73° 58' 15.22" W |
20, OC; 29; 31. MAP 11, L-15 |
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92. St. Dominic's Convent Cemetery Western Highway Blauvelt, NY 200 x 300 ft. |
Active, 1967 Burial ground for nuns at convent, and possibly orphans. Lat: 41° 03' 06.05" N, Lon: 73° 57' 15.58" W |
20, OF; 23; 31. MAP 12, M-16 |
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93. Oak Hill Cemetery West side, Rt 9W (North Highland Ave) at Sickles Ave. Nyack, NY 1848-present (> 20,000 graves) 200 acres |
Property is in both the towns of Orangetown and Clarkstown. Active, dedicated June 27, 1848, opened by D. D. Smith, who owned the land, and remained proprietor. 1865, additional land was purchased and added to the cemetery; cemetery incorporated. Includes: 66 Ancient Graves from Presbyterian Cemetery (# 95), near Nyack Baptist Church and from Cornelison's Point Burial Ground,140 N. Highland Ave, South Nyack. Also re-interred are the remains of the cemetery at Salisbury Point, South Nyack (ca. 25 graves).
Nyack, NY 10960 845-358-0012 Lat: 41° 05' 45.36" N, Lon: 73° 55' 37.79" W |
1;2; 5 V7, p. 260; 5, V8, V9; 20, OM; 27, p. 128; 28, p. 348; 30; 31. MAP 13, N-13 |
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94. Oak Hill Ancient Plots 71 gravestones (1804-1906) 100 x 30 ft. |
Removals from Nyack Baptist grounds NW corner of Cemetery.
Lat: 41° 05' 53.32" N, Lon: 73° 55' 54.34" W |
13, # 42; 21. |
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95. Presbyterian Cemetery Nyack, NY ca. 50 burials to 1850. No longer extant. |
Presbyterian Church Burial Ground; Old Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Corner of DePew and Franklin Streets, where Erie Railroad roundhouse now stands.
Cemetery opened 1800, Nyack. West of the Baptist Church. Removed to Oak Hill, 1869.
1810 burials on farm of John Gesner, South Nyack. A little later Blacks were buried on property of M. Cornelison. 1873, Cornelison Point Graveyard, disinterred and reinterred in Oak Hill. |
2; 11; 17; 27, p. 220; 28, p. 347, 29; 31 (T). |
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95a. Old Stone Church
Broadway Upper Nyack, NY |
Abandoned, < 1936, no trace
An Indian beggar was reputed to be buried on the grounds of the Old Stone Church, North Broadway, but this has been reputed.
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MAP 13, N-13 |
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95b. C. T. Smith's Point Cemetery
Nyack
? - 1834 |
Remains removed to Oak Hill Cemetery, 1873. |
27, p. 220. |
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95c. Simpson Burial Ground
South Boulevard, Nyack, NY |
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95d. Old Presbyterian Cemetery
Nyack, NY
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Abandoned < 1936.
1869, removed to Oak Hill |
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96. Gesner and Conklin Family Burial Ground Orangeburg (Palisades) 100 x 100 ft. |
Abandoned < 1936.
Set aside by John Gesner ca. 1788. Used until 1852. Probably refers to Gesner and Conklin graves in Rockleigh, Bergen Co, NJ (formerly Rockland County), just over the line. Above Rt 340. |
4, V6, p74; 13, # 79; 29; 31; 31 (G). |
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97. Orangeburg-Clausland Orangeburg, NY 216 rec. graves (1755-1926)* 220 x 590 ft. |
Clausland Burial Ground/Clausland Cemetery. Public, Abandoned. Old Western Hwy at 60 S. Greenbush Road, opp. Mountain View Hotel; Opposite Volkswagen Plant
East of Rt 303 (off Greenbush Road). Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1221196&Cscnty=2021& Lat: 41° 03' 06.88" N, Lon: 73° 56' 40.87" W |
7, V4, p20-23; 13, # 1; 19; 20; 21, 29; 30; 31. MAP 12, M-15 |
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97a. Blauvelt Burying Ground
Orangeburg, NY |
Abandoned < 1936, no trace.
Old cemetery on Fairgrounds, Orangeburg, (near Bell Ans?)
Across the street from the Clausland Cemetery at Orangeburg. The bodies were transferred from there to the Clausland and Oak Hill Cemeteries. |
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97b. Slave Cemetery
Montgomery Maze Property |
Abandoned, no trace, 1936.
Supposed slave cemetery.
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98. Rockland State Hospital Orangeburg, NY 5 acres |
Active, 1967. (new cemetery)
To be re-named Blaisdell Cemetery Flat tombstowns. Rockland Psychiatric Center Veterans Memorial Park Blaisdale Road, Orangeburg
Lat: 41° 03' 03.35" N, Lon: 73° 57' 49.74" W |
20, OG. MAP 12, L-16
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Rockland State Hospital
Orangeburg, NY |
Rockland Psychiatric Center Burial Grounds. Old Cemetery Rockland Psychiatric Center, to be re-named Broad Acres Cemetery. July 2000, on grounds of golf course, at RPC, could not find entrance (gravel path); may be through golf course. > 1600 burials, numbered on small in-ground stones, no names. Note: There are 3 other cemeteries run by Rockland Psychiatric Center. |
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99. St. Agnes Convent Cemetery Kings Highway 4 acres |
Active, 1967. Opposite Rockland Cemetery, behind trees; Rear of Convent. Lat: 41° 02' 23.76" N, Lon: 73° 55' 47.56" W
Entrance Lat: 41° 02' 28.15" N, Lon: 73° 55' 46.48" W |
20, OJ; 31. MAP 14, N-16 |
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100. Palisades Cemetery
Oak Tree Road, West of Rt 9W Palisades, NY 4 acres 1774 - |
Active. Once known as Lawrence Cemetery, or Lawrence Burying Ground, rear of former George Brown house (the later owner). Begun in 1774 and enlarged several times. 1964, purchased by Adolfo F. Lucas, of Brooklyn. Maintained by P.L.O.T. (Palisades Lot Owners Tribute Care Fund) Lat: 41° 00' 44.08" N, Lon: 73° 54' 53.96
Entrance - Lat: 41° 03' 46.15" N, Lon: 73° 54' 54.71" W |
4. (BC38), V2; 20, OL; 24, 27; 31. MAP 14, N-17 |
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100a. Skunk Hollow
Palisades, NY |
On border of Bergen Co, NJ. |
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100b. Indian Cemetery
Palisades, NY |
Abandoned < 1936. |
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100c. Ferdon Vault
Palisades, NY |
Vault at roadside, current Moquin Property, emptied and vault sealed. |
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101. Blauvelt Cemetery Pearl River, NY. |
Blauvelt Family Burial Site. E side of South Middletown Road, S side of Gilbert Avenue, Private, Disappeared. - Replaced by house. No longer extant. |
6, 29; 31 (G) ?. MAP 11, J-15 |
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102. Bogert Burial Plot Pearl River, NY
10 graves (1805 - 1907) 20 x 30 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, Fenced in Owned by Town of Orangetown Pearl River Middletown Rd. (between two shopping centers), head of E. Washington Ave.
Bogert Family, lived across street. Lat: 41° 03' 40.47" N, Lon: 74° 00' 46.45" W |
4, V6, p125; 7, V4, p 46; 13, #3; 19; 20, 29; 30; 31. MAP 11, J-15 |
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103. Middletown Burying Ground 39 Old Middletown Road E of Medical Arts Building Pearl River, NY ca. 56 graves (1799-1853)+ 13 moved to Pearl River Cem 200 x 60 ft. |
Middletown Baptist Church Burial Ground, Midland Cemetery.
Private, Abandoned Owned by Town of Orangetown. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=2352653&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=41& 1797, opened by Middletown Baptist Church. Lat: 41° 03' 30.86" N, Lon: 74° 00' 41.87" W |
4, V2; 6; 13, # 19; 19; 21, 29; 31. MAP 11, K-15 |
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104. Nauraushaun Burying Ground 100 Sickeltown Road 3 recorded graves (ca. 1791) |
Perry/Van Houten/Nauraushan Burial Ground.
Private, totally disappeared, covered by Lake Tappan Reservoir. Re-Interred in Orangeburg Clausland Cemetery. Bank of Hackensack Rive, 2 mi S of Van Houten Mills |
4; 7, V4, p 31-36; 19, 29; 30. |
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104a. Roth Famiy Vault
Nauraushaun, NY |
Abandoned < 1936, Vault Emptied.
° mile West of House of Barber, in Naurashaun. |
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104b. Slave Cemetery
Nauraushaun, NY |
Abandoned < 1936, no trace.
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104c. Jacobus Smith |
Abandoned, 1936, no trace.
Two inscriptions, of Jacobus Smith and his wife, on the Hackensack River 1 ° miles south of the ruins of the old Van Houten Mill. |
31 (DD). |
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105. Old Sonssont Cemetery Middletown Road Pearl River, NY |
Formerly family cemetery. Soussont Cemetery. |
7, V4, p45; 30. |
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106. Pearl River Cemetery (formerly Rockland Cemetery) Pearl River, NY sev hundred graves (1771-present). 200 x 300 ft. |
Active, 1967
Presbyterian Cemetery. Only active cemetery in Pearl River, in 1972. West of John Street, South of Franklin Ave, behind Franklin Avenue School. 37 S. John Street, 1853, founded by Middletown Baptist Church, to replace the full cemetery next to the church. Sold by church and privately owned. 1973, planned to be turned over to Pearl River Cemetery Association (founded 1948) Called Rockland Cemetery during 19th Century, re-named, 1880. Lat: 41° 03' 28.7402" N, Lon: 74° 01' 03.47" W |
1; 4, V2; 7, V4, p37-44; 20, OA; 29; 30; 31. MAP 11, J-15 |
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107. Temple Israel Memorial Park
Adj. St. Catherine's Van Wyck Road at Blauvelt Road (Orangeville) Pearl River 600 x 350 ft. |
Active |
20. MAP 11, L-15 |
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108. Quackenbush Burial Vault
Crooke Hill Road
Pearl River, NY |
Abandoned < 1936, no sign.. Site still exists, on former Quackenbush farm, privately owned. 300' North of Pole #7, Highland Avenue, Pearl River. Can also be reached by going back from Crooked Hill Road 500 ft. East. N of Crooked Hill Road, W. of North Highland Avenue, on a hillside, in stone wall. All remains removed in 1950's and lost. Vault Sealed. No longer extant. |
6, 29; 31 (Q). MAP 11, H-15 |
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109. Van Houten-Sickeltown Cemetery Between Sickeltown Road and Hackensack River (Blauvelt) Pearl River, NY ca. 164 graves (1756 - 1939)* 120 x 130 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, owned by Town of Orangetown. Also called Sickeltown Cemetery, Sickeltown Grave Yard. Fenced with chain-link fence, barbed wire, locked. Well maintained, 2000.
° mi. N. of VanHouten's corners.
Lat: 41° 13' 48.94" N, Lon: 73° 59' 12.59" W
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4, V2; 6; 13, # 59; 19; 20; 21, 29. Map 11, L-15 |
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110. Smith Family Graveyard
Pearl River, NY
3 stones, others lost |
On the bank of the Hackensack River, ca. 0.5 mi south of bridge; formerly known as Van Houten's Mills, near Veteran's Memorial Drive.
No longer extant. |
4, V6, p75, 29; 30. |
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111. Slave Burying Ground Woods, S of Gilbert Avenue, near Uris, Blue Hills Building. Pearl River, NY |
Disappeared. |
6. MAP 11, J-15 |
PIERMONT |
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112. Rockland Cemetery, Inc. Mount Nebo, Sparkill, NY 200 acres
121 graves listed |
See # 116, Sparkill. Established 1847, incorporated 1849, under NY Rural Cemeteries Act. Land donated by Eleazer Lord
P. O. Box 337 201 Kings Highway, Sparkill, NY 10976
Photos, History -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=65841&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=61& Lat: 41° 03' 40.47" N, Lon: 74° 00' 46.45" W Lat: 41° 02' 26.04" N, Lon: 73° 55' 41.95" W |
4, V7, p.212; 7, V2 (p. 10-44); 30. . MAP 14, N-16 |
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114. Baptist Churchyard Cemetery Piermont, NY |
Abandoned. < 1936. Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, pre 1840. Site is presently Piermont Village Hall. The small cemetery was in it's rear. Tombstones used by local residents for walks and patios. |
22; 31 (DD).. MAP 14, N-16 |
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115. John Gesner Farm
South Nyack, NY burials in 1810 |
Location unknown |
2; 28, p. 348. |
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115a. Cemetery at the "Bight"
South Nyack
? to 1834 |
First known public burial in Rockland County.
Location Unknown.
1873, remains lying on the point were moved to Oak Hill Cemetery. |
58, p347. |
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115b. Indian Graves
West of Route 9W South Nyack, NY |
On property of Christian Missionary Alliance.
May not be graves, but just rock piles. |
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116. Rockland Cemetery Mount Nebo, off Kings Hwy. Sparkill, NY 10976 1847-present 150 acres |
(see # 113) Active, Kings Highway. Sparkill, NY 10976 845-359-0172 |
1, 7, V2, p 14-44; 18; 20, OK; 21; 31. MAP 14, N-16 |
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117. St. Agnes Convent Cemetery
Rt 340, Kings Highway Sparkill, NY |
Aka Dominican Cemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1973189&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=81&
Contact - Sister Margaret, Dominican Sisters of Sparkill. |
MAP 14, N-16 |
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St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery
Sparkill, NY |
Behind trees, Exit East of Rockland Cemetery, opposite side of Road.
41° 02' 25.57" N, Lon: 73° 55' 44.35" W
Entrance -
41° 02' 28.18" N, Lon: 73° 55' 46.88" W
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118. Abandoned Burial Ground
Sparkill, NY |
Formerly on property of Minetto Homes, Inc. |
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119. Tappan Reformed Church Cemetery
Tappan, NY 93 graves (1757-1899, (old))* 110 x 350 ft. (old) 437 graves (new) 325 x 900 ft. |
Active, as Tappan Cemetery, established 1694, includes Old Tappan Cemetery 32 Old Tappan Rd. 845-359-1694 or 359-1330
Adjacent to church, Old Tappan Road at Greenbush Rd
Includes section adjacent to and behind church building and old (S. of Tappan Public Cemetery) and new sections across the street.
Lat: 41° 00' 22.28" N, Lon: 73° 56' 52.57" W
Lat: 41° 01' 27.56" N, Lon: 73° 56' 56.33" W |
1; 4, V2; 7, V1, p 1-4 (old), 5-38 (new); 13, # 4; 19 (old); 20, OI; 29; 30; 31. MAP 12, M-17 |
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120. Masonic Burial Ground Cemetery Road, off Western Highway Tappan, NY 200 x 200 ft. |
Active, 1967. Small cemetery, back of the Masonic Home.
Masonic Cemetery Cemetery Road, North of Tappan DRC. |
20, OH; 23; 31. MAP 12, M-16 |
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121. Old Tappan Cemetery Tappan, NY 390 graves (1760-1890)* 150 x 150 ft. |
Public, Abandoned. Part of Tappan Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery. |
19. MAP 12, M-17 |
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122. Andre Monument
Andre Hill, Tappan, NY . |
Former grave of Major John Andre, 1780 Monument over the original gravesite of Major Andre, of the British Army, and spy who conspired with Benedict Arnold to acquire the plans to West Point. Later his remains were removed and re-buried in Winchester Cathedral, London, England. |
19, 27. MAP 12, M-17 |
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123. Airmont Lutheran Cemetery
51 A S Airmont Rd. Airmont, NY 5 acres |
Active Christ Evangelical Lutheran CemeterySouth Airmont Road Office- 3 Church Road 845-357-3344 (Old) Masonicus Cemetery - Old graves, site incorporated into Airmont Lutheran Cemetery, on Northern edge, surrounded by trees (graves > 200 years old), not maintained by Airmont Lutheran.
http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com/
Lat: 41° 16' 05.59" N, Lon: 74° 07' 04.37" W |
3; 20, RP; 31, 33. MAP 10 - E-13 |
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124. Unknown Burial Plots Camp Hill, NY 20 x 20 ft |
Abandoned, Private. No readable stones. |
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125. Abrams Burial Plot E side, Quaker Road, 0.5 mi N of Camp Hill Road Camp Hill, NY 6 graves (1857-1880)* 25 x 30 ft |
Private, abandoned, 1967, E side of road, short distance (200 ft) S of Quaker Meeting House (and burial plot) on Camp Hill On Quaker Rd, ° mi N. of intersection of Camp Hill Rd, East side of Rd.
On property of S. H. Deegan and East of Danton Walker House. 20-30 graves, most marked by fieldstones. |
4, V6, p124; 13, # 8; 19; 20; 31; 32, WPA-8. Map 5, H-8 |
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126. Bishop Family Burial Plot Camp Hill, NY 11 graves 50 x 50 ft. |
1967 - Abandoned Burials include Ebenezer Bishop, the immigrant from England. 1 mi W of Mt Ivy RR Station, Rollo Peters Farm Off Camp Hill Rd, 0.5 mi N of Rt 202; Ladentown
A Bishop house became the estate of Burgess Meredith, on the site. |
4, V6, p103; 13, #6; 20; 27, p. 284; 30; 31; 31 (BB), 33; WPA-6 MAP 5, H-8. |
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127. Thomas Babcock Burial Ground Camp Hill Road, Camp Hill Haverstraw 15 graves (field stones) 50 x 20 ft |
Private Abandoned, 1967. |
13, # 92; 19; 20; 31; 32. WPA-92. |
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128. (Jackie) Jones Family BG Jerome L. Hastings Farm 9 Isaac Drive, off Camp Hill Road South, Pomona, NY 1847 - 3 graves listed, 6 field stones 30 x 26 ft. |
Hastings-Jones Plot, Jones-Hastings Family Plot, Jones Family Burial Ground, Jacob Jones Private, Abandoned (on private property), public access easement. Originally Jacob Jones Farm. Hastings dau married Jones and inherited the farm.
Cemetery surrounded by low stone wall. 2 new stones set on ground, 2004, by Mabel Monks. ° mi South of Intersectio of Route 202 and Hastings Place.
41° 10' 41.33" N, Lon: 74° 03' 15.78" W
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129. J. Jones Family Burial Ground Camp Hill, NY 25 x 25 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. (probably same as above ?) Camp Hill Rd, 0.25 mi S of Rt 202, on Hastings Place |
13, # 53; 20. MAP 5, H-9 |
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130. Quaker Church Burial Grounds Camp Hill Road, Quaker Road, rear of former church Camp Hill, NY 20 graves (1833-40)* un-marked field stonea 50 x 50 ft. |
Quaker Meeting House Burial Ground. Public, Abandoned, < 1936, no trace. On the Road from Suffern to Haverstraw (Route 202) to the north side of the road between that and a brook at the foot of the mountain.
Behind the Meeting House. Meeting House became a private home @ 266 Quaker Road, Pomona. Behind Redwood Pool Association, BG is on a knoll t the rear of the property. A few marked stones and about 20 fieldstones.
Off Quaker Rd. Approx. 1200; North Inter, Camp Hill Rd, approx. 100'Rear (West) of Quaker Meeting House (former). |
13, # 95; 19; 20; 31 (#2); 31 (E); 31 (X); 32, WPA-95. MAP 5, H-8 |
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131. Seemans Farm Camp Hill Road Camp Hill, NY 6 field stones 30 x 30 ft. |
Poor Cemetery, Abandoned, 1967. Seaman Farm. |
13, # 99; 19; 20; 31; 32, WPA-99. MAP 5, H-8 |
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132. Colored Cemetery; Benson Cemetery
Chestnut Ridge (former S Spring Valley) 23 graves; 25 stones
50 x 100 ft. |
Hungary Hollow Road Cemetery. Abandoned (not found - 2006)
2000 ft. W of Rt 45 on Hungary Hollow Road, S. side, on Threefold Farm, 260 Hungary Hollow Road.
Opposite Raymond Ave, Chestnut Ridge.
Sect 21, Plot 22
400 ft North of Hungary Hollow Road; 400 ft North of ?? Line, rear of residence of Nancy Laughlin, Threefold ??
Benson, White, Demarest.
Near - Lat: 41° 05' 20.80" N, Lon: 74° 03' 53.09" W |
13, # 17; 20; 30; 31 (#4); 33.
MAP 10, G-14 |
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133. Maple Grove Cemetery Hempstead, (Montebello), NY 114 records |
? Maintained by Parks Commission, Montebello Originally Viola Road Cemetery, Viola Baptist Church Cemetery
Formerly owned by Maple Grove Cemetery Association (extinct).
Viola Rd at Golden Rd, East of the high school http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/
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Lat: 41° 08' 10.91" N, Lon: 74° 06' 12.03" W |
1; 20, RJ; 31; 33. MAP 8, F-11 |
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134. Colored CemeteryHillburn, NY 10 graves (< 1905 - 1926) 35 x 35 ft. |
Colored Veteran's Cemetery, Civil War. Cemetery in Hillburn; Hillburn Cemetery.
Private, Abandoned. - Not found, 2006, may be buried under interchange. 650 ft South of 6th Street (intersection of Rt 59 and Rt 17); 320 ft East of Power Lines. (6th Street and Boulder Ave).
Burial site of Daniel Cole.
1967- Formerly property of Mountain Spring Co; behind the house of Donald A. Alexander, 127 South St, Hillburn. Lat: 41° 07' 21.01" N, Lon: 74° 10' 03.15" W |
13, # 84; 20; 21; 31 (#5); 33. MAP 7, C-12 |
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134a. Old Quarantine GroundsEast Hillburn, NY |
Abandoned, no trace, 1936.
Supposed burial place for Quarantine victims.(small pox).
Rt 17, turn left Torne Valley Road, a flat open field, on Fox Hollow Road. |
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134b. Stagg Hillca. 40 graves |
Indian Cemetery |
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135. Allison & Secor Burial Ground Ladentown, NY 10 graves (1846-1918)* 40 x 40 ft |
Allison-Secor Burial Ground. Includes Seaman Family Cemetery (3 cemetries). Private, Abandoned, see Pomona. Town of Ramapo. 2 Cemeteries, Behind property of Ann Georges, 28 Call Hollow Road, Pomona (at Ramapo/Haverstraw Town Line).
Now - Pomona, Off Ladentown Road/Call Hollow Road right on Secor Court, right side of road, behind pond, near Pumphouse, behind.
Off Mountain Road, Ladentown Area.
Lat: 41° 11' 03.34" N, Lon: 74° 03' 05.71" W
Street - 41° 11' 19.36" N, Lon: 74° 03' 34.48" W
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135a. Haring-Secor Graves
Dilts Road Ladentown, NY
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Secor-Herring Cemetery, Herring-Secor Burial Site
Small family plot located just north of Ladentown Cemetery on (a dirt lane) Dilts Lane, South off of Old Mountain Road. 3 or 4 cemeteries in area. (Probably # 135, 136. and 137.). (Close to former Laden Family Burial Ground destroyed, 1948). Just North of the O&R Substation to the left.
Small family plot located just north of Ladentown Cemetery on Dilts Road, off of Mountain Road. It is on the southeast side of the road across from the Harriman Trails Hiker's parking area where the Tuxedo-Mount Ivy hiking trail begins. The graves are partially hidden by brush and a small grove of trees. The plot contains four marked tombstones and several unmarked stones.
Eliza Secor
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135b. Secor Family
75 x 150 ft. |
In a field just west of the store of former Supervisor Pincus Margulies. |
20, RA. |
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135c. Isaac Secor Plot
Mount Ivy/Ladentown
35 un-marked graves
50 x 42 ft. |
Ike Secor Plot, Ike Secor Burial Ground.
Abandoned (1936).
Lime Hollow Trail, Ladentown.
Isaac and Mary Secor, 1911, removed to Mount Rest. Abandoned, 1926.
Next to Laden Burial Ground.
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136. Laden Burial Ground Ditts Road Ladentown, NY |
In a field, a short distance W of Ladentown Church, destroyed, disappeared, 1948, house built on site. Michael Laden grave. |
4, V6, p98; 30. |
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137. Ladentown Cemetery Mountain Road, near Dilts Road Ladentown, Ramapo Twp. 225 x 75 ft. > 80 burials |
a.k.a. Bowers of Rest Cemetery.
Active, 1967. On the road westward from the village, a short distance W of the Main Road. On a dirt road. By Camp Ramaquois entrance.
On Mt. Rd. ° mi. west of Rt. 202, Ladentown. 0.23 acre
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/
Photo -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr& |
4, V6, p101; 7; V2, p3-4; 20, RB; 30; 31. MAP 5, G-8 |
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137a. Conklin-Smith Burial Ground
Pomona Heights/Ladentown
ca. 30 Graves
2 stones, 14 field stones |
Private Cemetery of Stewart Smith Family, Conklin Family Burial Ground, Elias Conklin Cemetery.
On Sheriff's Department Horse farm, across the road from Duke's Four-Quarter Horse Ranch, later known as Horsefeathers Ranch.
On John Patrick Farm, Hasty Hills. (Old Smith Farm).
East side of Rt 202, South of Wilock (Wilder?) Road intersection, Sheriff's Horse Farm, dirt road, between # 337 and # 341, Rt 202, about 1000 ft East, turn left at intersection, ca. 500 ft North, fence on North, Stone wall on West Side. |
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Map 5, G-9 |
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138. Family Burial Ground Ladentown, NY |
0.5 mi NE of Ladentown. |
4, V6, p114. |
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139. Seaman Burial Ground Camp Hill Road Ladentown, NY 20 graves (1833-1879)* 25 x 25 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. Secor/Allison/Seaman Burial Ground.
Seaman's Farm
Off Call Hollow Road, South of Camp Hill Road, Pomona, |
13, # 109: 19; 20; 30; 32, WPA-109. |
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140. Ike Secor Lime Hollow Trail Ladentown, NY 35 graves (no markings) 50 x 50 ft. |
Poor Cemetery, Abandoned. Same as Laden Burial Ground, # 136?
Dilts Road, Ladentown, off Mountain Road, opposite Ladentown Church - 2 stones, 3 names. |
13, # 98; 19; 20; 30; 32. MAP 5, G-9 |
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140a. Graves on a Hill |
Abandoned, no trace, 1936.
Opposite school on Rout 202, between Ladentown and Mt. Ivy. |
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141. Ascension Cemetery Monsey, NY 1960-present |
Active. PO Box 397 650 Saddle River Rd. 845-352-7220 914-769-3672 Established by the Archdiocese of New York. Chapel, Mausoleum, Crypts.
Lat: 41° 05' 20.07" N, Lon: 74° 03' 53.09" W |
1, 29; 31, 34. MAP 10, G-14 |
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142. Monsey Cemetery North Saddle River Road at 19 Maple Avenue (Rt 306) Monsey, (Spring Valley), NY
300 x 200 ft. 180 graves |
Active, 1967. Opened 1824, Adjacent to the site of the original True Reformed Dutch Church, of Monsey, now a synagogue. Aka - True Reformed Cemetery, Monsey Memorial Cemetery, Seceder Cemetery, Monsey Christian Reformed Cemetery, New Hope Christian Cemetery, Monsey Rural Cemetery.
Maintained by various community groups.
Lat: 41° 06' 56.01" N, Lon: 74° 04' 19.41" W |
4, V2; 20, RM; 30; 31.
MAP 8, G-12 |
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142a. Monsey Jewish Center Cemetery,\
670 Saddle River Road, Airmont, NY |
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142b. Jewish Workers Alliance
Monsey, NY |
Active, 1967 |
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142c. Family Cemetery
Monsey, NY |
1965, Graves were bulldozed by developers in Cameo Homes development. Christmas Hill Road, Monsey.
May have been Osborne Family Plot. |
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142c. Grace Baptist Church of Suffern Cemetery
68 Viola Road
Montebello, NY |
Also known as Maple (Family) Grove.(see 133.), Viola Baptist Church Cemetery. West of Spook Rock Road.
1979, sold for $387, back taxes (Sewer) to Fred Hard. |
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143d. Mechanicsville Private Cemetery
Near Alms House |
1860 - Plot of land from Mechanicsville ME Church Parsonage and Rockland Co Poor House land running Northerly along said parsonage land to the public road leading Easterly from the Baptist Church to Mechanicsville, thence Westerly along said public road 84 ft to a stake and fence, thence Southerly along said fence in a line parallel with said East line to the said Rockland County Poor House land at a point 84 ft from the place of beginning. |
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143. Viola Rd. Cemetery
147 Viola Road Montebello, NY 62 graves |
Same as Viola United Methodist Church Cemetery, Viola, NY
° mile West of intersection of Forshay and College Roads. |
1, 29; 30. MAP 8, F-11
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144.3 Graves in FieldMount Ivy, NY 3 graves (1813-1835) 10 x 10 ft |
Private, Abandoned. |
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145. Coe and Gurnee Burial Plots
Mount Ivy, NY
27 graves (1765- 1912)*
75 x 75 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. (Removed to Brick Church Cemetery., March 1966). Judge Benjamin Coe Family Plot, Coe-Gurnee Plot, Mount Ivy Burial Plot.
Off Rt 45 to 1 Twin Pine Drive (100 yards); At the head of the mountain, a few hundred ft West of Mount Ivy RR station. Sky View Acres Development, 75 ft S. of the M. E. Church, 500 ft SW of School.
Gurnee Section - inside of fence ° mile from Mt. Ivy station.
1958 - Only 2 tombstones standing? Lat: 41° 09' 22.18" N, Lon: 74° 01' 51.12" W |
4, V6, p72; 19; 20; 21; 27, p. 310; 30; 31; 32, 33. MAP 8, J-10 |
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146. Gurnee Family Plot Rt 45, 1 mi S Conklin Fruit Stand Mount Ivy, NY 2 graves |
Private, Abandoned. Abigail and John Gurnee 250 feet, NE of historic home of Frances Gurnee. 1 Twin Pine Drive, off Rt 45, New Hempstead
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147. Gurnee Burial Ground near 44 South Mountain Road Mount Ivy/ (or New City? ) 1846 - 1912 21 graves 50 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. John Gurnee CemeteryOn S. Mt. Road on former Mobray-Clarke Property On old Gurnee Farm
46 (or 48) South Mountain Road (J. Newman), South side. Turn into driveway and continue until you see another house, in poor condition. Park car and walk to the right to find the burial plot. 2006, Town of Ramapo purchased the house property.
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/gurnee_fam.htm |
13, # 70; 20; 30; 33. |
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148. Sutter Farm, John Sutter GraveQuaker Road, (Haverstraw) Mount Ivy/{Pomona), NY Single Grave (1859) 4 x 8 ft |
Private, Abandoned. < 1936, destroyed. Planned for industrial site. Stone found, 1936. Location unknown, 1 stone in (John Sutter) found near Quaker Road Trailer Camp, in the woods, at telephone pole # 8 Mt Ivy, 700' north of Camp Hill Road. Off PIP entrance, about 1000' |
5, V9; 13, # 4; 19; 20; 31; 32; WPA-74. |
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149. Old Coe Family Plot50 Highview Ave New Hempstead/ Pomona, NY
38 graves (1765-1912)* 75 x 75 ft or 100 x 60 ft |
Coe Family Farm Cemetery; The Coe Family Burial Plot
Abandoned < 1936 In field, among development houses, 0.5 mi north of the English Church, Ramapo Twp, on land behind a low stone wall,
In woodland, 0.5 mi N of English Church, near Old Schoolhouse Road and Rt 45, Now 50 Highview Ave
Entrance from a path starting at the circle at the end of Butternut Drive
1978 - restored by Boy Scout Troop.
Cleaned and "restored," Dec 2004, Eagle Scout Project by Christopher Roberts, Troop 21, Suffern,
Owner of cemetery and adjoining house property (Angel), has deeded cemetery to the town (paperwork being processed (May 8, 2014))
Ramapo Department of Parks and Recreation. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
36 names listed.
Lat: 41° 09' 03.74" N, Lon: 74° 01' 08.52" W |
4, V6, p62; 13, # 37; 27, p. 310; 31, 33. MAP 8, J-10 |
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149a. Concklin Cemetery |
Destroyed - Bull-dozed, ca. 1985? Stones destroyed or removed. Grave remains left under lawn.
A couple of miles North from the English Church, East of Rt 45). Among professional buildings. Marker in lawn in front of lot. Stone corner markers outline the burials plot. Cypress tree remains in plot. |
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150. Community Synagogue Cemetery Cloverdale Lane 52 burials, 1978-90 |
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151. Concklin Burial PlotPomona, NY Orig 15 stones 25 x 25 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. E of Rt 45, former Gordon Concklin Place Rt 45 to 2 Medical Park Drive (Professional Office Park), tombstones removed, 1984, Bronze plaque in lawn, commemorating those buried there.
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/concklin_family.htm |
4, V6, p108; 13, # 30; 20; 30. MAP 5, J-9. |
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152. Old Burial Ground, (Greer Woodycrest Cemetery)Off Pomona Road, Five Points Mission Farm Pomona, NY 75 x 25 ft. |
5 Point Mission Burial Plot; Crystal Run Village. NE corner of Mission Farm, behind the Minisceongo golf course (Mount Ivy County Park).. Former Conklin Homestead, aka Happy Valley, 5 Points Mission House, Orphan Home. Now Minisceongo Golf Club, Camp Hill.
Conklin Cemetery.
North of Cottages
Photos -
http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/greer/greer.htm
Lat: 41° 10' 01.77" N, Lon: 74° 02' 48.78"W |
4, V6, p129; 13, # 41; 20; 30; 31; 32; WPA-41 MAP 5, H-9 |
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152a. Seeley GravePomona/Haverstraw40 x 40 ft |
Abandoned. Call Hollow Road, to Secor Ct, East 1/10 mile to pond, in woods, along gravel road, next to Allison/Secor Cemetery. Straddles Haverstraw/Ramapo Town line |
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152b. Un-named CemeteryPomona, NY6 or more graves |
Aka Mt Ivy Cemetery; aka Mabley
Off Mabley (or Marley) Court Quaker Road to Brookside to (or left onto Marley Court) Woodfield Road, Rear of #12, Woodfield. All fieldstones. |
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153. Ramapo Cemetery"Gates of Praise"(Hillburn) Ramapo, NY 422 graves 0.5 acre |
Active, 1967 Next to former Ramapo Presbyterian Church, of the Ramapo Works (now Gates of Praise Church), on the state road (Rt 17). Owned by Trust set up by Pierson Family, who founded the church and cemetery.. Intersection of Rt 17 & 339-east of road. Lat: 41° 08' 05.40" N, Lon: 74° 10' 02.11" W |
1, 7, V3, p34-44; 14; 20, RQ; 30; 31; 33. MAP 7, C-11 |
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154. Ancient Burial Ground Ramapo Twp. 5 stones 1770-1803
includes slaves |
Sterlington Burial GroundRt 17, Sloatsburg (listed as abandoned, 1936, WPA). Opposite former Sterlington RR Station, on a high bank, S of the road, a few hundred ft S of the station, toward Ramapo. Small burying ground, on a small hill, East of the Sidman House. (Smith's Tavern, Pierson Mapes House). May contain ca. 100 graves. Thought to be graves of Revolutionary War soldiers. The Van Deusen, Sidman and Smith Burying Ground is believed to be different, from the Quarantine Grounds, a few hundred feet from the Sidman House. Originally the road (now Rt 17) was West (?) of the house, but it was moved to the opposite side. Is this "the Quarantine Ground?" Probably not.
Not found, 2006
Ca. 41° 09' 27.05" N, Lon: 74° 11' 27.46" W |
4, V6, p136; 30; WPA-. MAP 7, B-10 |
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155. Cemetery at Ramapo 152 graves listed. |
See Ramapo Cemetery, above (# 153.) |
4, V9. |
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156. Sloatsburg Cemetery Eagle Valley Road, Sloatsburg, NY 3000 x 1500 ft., ca. 5 acres
> 1600 graves |
Sloat Family Cemetery, Eagle Valley Cemetery,
1878, Sloatsburg Association formed, completely sold out, by 1932, Abandoned, 1967. Owned by Town of Ramapo, cared for by Highway Department, Town Marker. Includes Sloat Family Plots.
1781, Pvt. John Slaot buried.
1832, Sloat Family plot
1852, towns people buried in Hill section.
1878, Sloatsburg Cemetery Association.
1936, un-cared for.
Listed, NRHP.
Photos, History -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? http://www.sloatsburgny.com/Old_Cemetery.htm Lat: 41° 09' 13.75" N, Lon: 74° 11' 42.51" W |
20, RR; 31 . MAP 7, B-10 |
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157. Sloatsburg M. E. Church Cemetery West Side of Route 17, Sloatsburg 2 graves |
Abandoned (Not found, 2006) Rear of Church
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157a. Unknown Cemetery
Sloatsburg, NY |
On hillside (or knoll), above thje west side of Rt 17, between Sloatsburg and Hillburn (South of Sterling Mine Road interection with Rt 59. Said to contain veteran's graves. Van Deusen-Sidman-Smith Cemetery. (Van Deusen Family Cemetery). Property belongs to Ramapo Land Co. Probably contains graves of Revolutionay War soldiers who protected the area and died there.
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158. Wesley Chapel Churchyard Sherwoodville 46 Spook Rock Rd. Welsley Hills, NY
111 graves listed 100 x 200 ft. |
Aka Wesley Hills United Methodist Cemetery
Abandoned, 1967. 500 ft. W Rt 202 and 22; off Chapel Road. Budke - partial listing http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/
Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&
Lat: 41° 09' 26.45" N, Lon: 74° 05' 55.52" W |
4, V7, p.201; 7, V2, p 10-14; 10; 20, RM; 30; 31. MAP 8, F-10 |
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159. Scotland Hill Burial Ground Nanuet/Spring Valley/Clarkstown 12 graves (1749-1859) 100 x 100 ft. |
Abandoned, Town of Clarkstown. 1 mile west of Nanuet. Also called Blauvelt Family Burial Ground. On former Albert Hopper/Cornelius Blauvelt Farm property. Historic Site, In woods, North side of street.
Carriage Lane, Off South Pascack Valley Road; South of Birchwood Avenue.
1 mile West of Pascack Road, West of Rodeco Property.
Lat: 41° 05' 44.53" N, Lon: 74° 02' 09.63" W |
2; 4, V6, p. 65; 13, #28; 20, 29, 33. MAP 11, J-13 |
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159a. Brick Church Cemetery or Reformed Church of West New Hempstead Cemetery 194 Brick Church Rd at Rt 306. (Viola Rd and Spring Valley Rd) Spring Valley, NY (New Hempstead)
643 graves listed 2.5 acres (old) (1774 - ) 30 acres (new) |
Active 220 Brick Church Rd. New Hempstead, NY 10977 845-354-6785 Composed of Old and New Sections. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
Lat: 41° 08' 24.79" N, Lon: 74° 03' 53.35" W |
1; 2; 5, V7, p150; 20, RD, RE; 21, 29; 30; 31. MAP 8, G-11 |
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159b. Congregation Sons of Israel of Spring Valley 240 Brick Church Road Spring Valley/New Hempstead, NY 0.5 acre 735 burials, 1907-90 |
Active, 1967. 50' East of Rt 306, adjoining old section of Brick Church Cemetery. |
20, 26, 29, RF, 33. MAP 8, G-11 |
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159c. Congregation Sons of Israel of Suffern 76 Montebello Road 300 x 200 ft. 193 burials, 1927-91 |
Active, 1967. Probably Jewish Congregation of Suffern. Land acquired, 1922. |
20, RH; 26; 29; 30; 31, 33. MAP 8, G-11 |
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159d. Common Synagogue of Monsey
Brick Church Road
300x200 ft.
193 burials 1927-1991 |
Active 2002.
Next to # 158, above |
MAP 8, G-11 |
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159e. Chevra Kadisha of Monsey 240 Brick Church Road, New Hempstead, NY 31 burials, 1969-90 |
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26, 29, 30. MAP 8, G-11 |
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159b. Chevra Kadisha of New Square
17 Grant Ave New Square, NY |
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159f. Viznitz Cemetery
Monsey-Ladentown Road, (Rt 306) Spring Valley, NY |
Active, Walled in Cemetery, Cemetery of the Hasidic Community. Large number of burials, but much unused space. |
MAP 8, G-11 |
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159g. Congregation K'Hal Torath Chaim, Inc.
290 Rt 306, New Hempstead, NY |
Orthodox (Hasidic)
8.2 acre cemetery, Rt 306 and Brick Church Road. |
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160. De Ronde Burial Ground 23 Tioken Road, (Hillcrest) Spring Valley, NY 1777-1893 50-60 graves 75 x 200 ft. |
DeRonde Stanley CemeteryPrivate, Abandoned (< 1936). (Town of Ramapo) Town marker. 1 mi N of Spring Valley on road to English Church (Rt 45), Old Blanchard Farm, directly behind residence of Dr. Henry Kaplan and Jerome Brown. In Tioken Farms development 1967 - property of Dr. Henry Kaplan and Jerome Brown
Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr& |
4, V6, p76; 13, # 37; 20, 29; 30, 33. MAP 8, G-11 |
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160a. Frederick W. Loescher Veterans Memorial Cemetery
Brick Church Road New Hempstead, NY |
Adjacent to the Brick Church Cemetery, 1973, 21.3 acres purchased by Rockland Co. Room for 5000 graves.
Rockland County Veterans Cemetery, Frederick W. Loescher Memorial Cemetery .
Photos - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
41° 08' 22.18" N, Lon: 74° 03' 45.51" W |
31. MAP 8, G-11 |
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160b. Blanchard Farm Cemetery
Rt 45, Hillcrest, NY
3 acres, 40 graves |
On a high rise overlooking Rt 45. |
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161. Gates of Zion Brick Church Road 110 burials, 1978-91 |
Group of Jewish Cemeteries -
41° 28' 27.33" N, Lon: 74° 03' 49.46" W |
27, 30. MAP 10, G-14 |
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161a. Ramapo Triangle Club, Inc.
240 BrickChurch Road New Hempstead, NY |
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162. Spring Valley Jewish Community Center Cemetery Brick Church Road Spring Valley/New Hempstead, NY 200 x 200 acre 489 burials, 1920-90 |
Active 1967. Adj to Brick Church Cemetery |
20, RI; 27; 29; 30; 31. MAP 8, G-11 |
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162a. Jewich Community Center Cemetery
Monsey, NY |
Active, 1967.
Same as above? |
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163. Jewish Memorials of Rockland |
15 State St. Spring Valley, NY 10977 |
1. MAP 8, G-11 |
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164. Knights of Pythias Brick Church Road New Hempstead, Ramapo, NY 56 burials, 1970-90 |
Ramapo Lodge # 485 (Jewish)
Active 2002
North of Brick Church Cemetery. |
27, 33. MAP 8, G-11 |
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165. Russian Orthodox Cemetery (Novo Diveevo) 100 Smith Road at Convent Road 5000 graves (1950-present) |
Active Founded 1950, by a Russian Bishop. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr& Lat: 41° 06' 36.20" N, Lon: 74° 01' 30.56" W |
3. MAP 11, J-12 |
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166. Small Family Plot Chestnut Ridge/ Spring Valley, NY |
In the Salvation Army Park, ca. 1 mi S of Spring Valley, Lakeside School grounds |
4, V6, p126. MAP 10, H-13 |
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167. Salvation Army Farm Cemetery Route 45 Chestnut Ridge/ Spring Valley, NY 7 graves (1830 - 1923) 20 x 20 ft. |
Lakeside Academy Cemetery
Abandioned Near Scotland Road next to Lakeside School
Lat: 41° 05' 29.67" N, Lon: 74° 02' 56.43" W |
21; 31. MAP 10, H-13 |
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Tallman Family Burial Ground 681 Chestnut Ridge Road, (Rt 45), at Scotland Road,
Chestnut Hill (formerly) Spring Valley 25 x 25 ft. 7 graves (1850-1923) |
Active, 1967? Abandoned before 1936. On farm of Douw Harmannus Talman, later Salvation Army Farm (Cherry Tree Home), later, Former Lakeside School property, later Edwin Gould Academy grounds, sold 2012 to a land developer.
South of Spring Valley Rt. 45.
Ellen McNamara 845-642-3343
Grave of James Dorey, Washington's Barber. |
20; 29, RN. MAP 10, G-13 |
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169. Workmen's Circle of Spring Valley, Cemetery 240 Brick Church Road 200 x 300 ft. 174 burials, 1929-90 |
Active, 1967. Adj (North) to Brick Church Cemetery Lat: 41° 08' 27.29" N, Lon: 74° 03' 48.85" W |
20, RG; 26; 29, 33. MAP 8, G-11 |
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170. Outside Workmans's Circle Brick Church Road New Hempstead, NY 80 burials, 1904-91 |
North of Brick Church Cemetery. |
26, 33. MAP 8, G-11 |
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170a. Congregation Beth Tefilla of Monsey
Brick Church Road New Hempstead, NY |
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171. Sherwood Family Burial Ground Haverstraw Road, (Rt 202) Montebello/Suffern, NY 0.25 acre
45 graves (1771-1897) |
Private, Abandoned. (Not Found) Old Coe, Conklin and Sherwood Burial PlotOn a sandy knoll, beside Mahwah Creek, on East side of Rt 202 (Haverstraw Road), 2 mi N of Suffern, E of Valley Road and a little S of road leading to Viola (Viola Road). Located on a Pine covered knoll, on the E side of Rt 202, ca. 1000 feet S of Viola Rd. (North of Orchard Circle), on the Copeland Estate.
Ca. 100 yards up to a knoll, from RT 202. Partially desecrated, Sept 1960. 1936, 20 small, unmarked stones found. |
4, V6, p132; 13, # 16; 20; 30; 31; 33. MAP 8, E-11 |
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171a. Salomon Memorial |
Abandoned - 1967
Sky Meadow Road, Suffern. |
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172. Small Cemetery Tallman, NY |
S side of Nyack, Turnpike (275 Rt 59). Evergreen Cemetery, founded by First Congregational Church, of Tallman, now the Tallman Bible Church (see # 173, 174). Abandoned, Controlled by Town of Ramapo. |
4, V6, p127, 29; 30.
MAP 7, E-12. |
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173. Tallman Cemetery Main highway (Rt. 59) to Suffern |
Opposite Church (Same as Evergreen, # 174.)
Church - 41° 08' 11.01" N, Lon: 74° 05' 02.27" W |
7, V3, p18-21; 29. MAP 7, E-12. |
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174. Evergreen Cemetery
(Tallman Cemetery)
Tallman, NY 700 x 2000 ft. 24 graves |
Active, 1967. Small, public cemetery. Abandoned, since 1986, controlled and cared for by Town of Ramapo. Town plans to acquire land title. Town Marker.
South side Rt 59, opp. Tallman Bible Church
1877, first cemetery plots purchased, across Rt 59 from the Second Congregational Church (now the Tallman Bible Church)
Photos - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
Lat: 41° 06' 40.84" N, Lon: 74° 06' 14.81" W |
20, RO; 31. MAP 7, E-12 |
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175. Cedars of Lebanon Cemetery Viola Road Viola, NY 120 x 300 ft. |
Active, 1967. (Same as Methodist Church Cemetery, # 179.?) South side of Viola Road, 500 ft. W of Methodist Church Lat: 41° 08' 11.82" N, Lon: 74° 05' 11.89" W |
20, RK; 31; 33. MAP 8, F-11 |
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176. Churchyard of the Baptist Church Montebello/Viola, NY 209 graves 200 x 350 ft. |
Active, 1967. (Same as Maple Grove)
Grace Baptist Churchyard, Viola Baptist Church. Viola Road, 1 mi W of Viola, W of Morgan's Corner 41° 08' 11.83" N, Lon: 74° 05' 11.86" W
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4, V6, p90; 20, RJ; 30; 31; 3. MAP 8, F-11 |
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177. Cemetery at Masonicus Airmont Road Airmont, Ramapo Twp, NY 200 x 200 ft. |
A short distance W of the Lutheran Church adjacent to Airmont Lutheran Cemetery and maintained by same, on Northern boarder..
Lat: 41° 06' 07.43" N, Lon: 74° 07' 09.46" W |
4, V6, p83; 13, # 107; 30; 31. MAP 10, E-13 |
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178. Rockland County Cemetery/ Veteran's Cemetery
(Gary/Garret Onderdonk Veteran's Cemetery) 145 College Road Suffern/Viola, NY 1012 graves (1955-?) 2 acres |
Active Rockland County Community College grounds, off Viola Road. Originally burials were restricted to indigent veterans.
All plots filled or partially filled, open only for burials of family members.
Lat: 41° 08' 07.43" N, Lon: 74° 05' 15.58" W
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1; 20, RS; 30; 31; 33. MAP 8, F-11 |
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179. Viola Cemetery/Viola United Methodist Church Cemetery
147 Viola Road Viola, NY
60 graves |
Abandoned - 1967.
Viola Road Cemetery, originally Cedars of Lebanon.
S side of Viola Road, short distance W of Viola. Opposite Quince Road.
Photo -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&
Burials -
http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/viola/viola_united.htm |
4, V6, p95. 29; 30; 31. MAP 8, F-11 |
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180. Rockland County Cemetery/ County Welfare Cemetery Potters Field 145 College Road Suffern/Viola, NY 75 x 400 ft. |
Active, 1967. Cemetery filled,
Poor Cemetery
Rockland Community College Grounds, adjacent (South of) Veteran's Cemetery. 1970 - At least 50 unmarked graves were removed from the NW corner of the Veterans Cemetery and re-interred in the adjoining Welfare Cemetery. A new county cemetery was organized on Middletown Road, Nanuet by purchase from St Paul's Lutheran Church. Photos -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
Lat: 41° 08' 03.25" N, Lon: 74° 05' 16.13" W |
20, RT; 27; 30; 31. MAP 8 F-11 |
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181. Waldron (Revolutionary War) Cemetery Penny Bridge Grassy Point/Stony Point, NY 100 graves (1804-1872), or > 300 (1790-1860's) 150 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned (cleaned, upkeep by Town of Stony Point). Once Aka Neilly Cemetery, Neely's Cemetery, Neelie Cemetery. Locally called Indian Graveyard. Entrance on S side of East Main Street, W of RR overpass. Near Penny Bridge. One of oldest in Stony Point Twp. (Contains Brewsters.) Easement on West of railroad tracks. Property owned by O&R.
On West side of RR tracks, between tracks and woods. Restored ca. 2011. 500 ft South of Main Street.
Near Penny Bridge and parallel with the railroad tracks http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/waldron_cemetery.htm Recently refurbished (2012), by SAR and Stony Point Action Committee for the Environment. Maintained by Town of Stony Point.
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&Crid=1212479&Cscnty=2021&CSsr=101&
Lat: 41° 13' 33.29" N, Lon: 75° 58' 36.08" W |
4, V6, p66; 5; 13, # 60; 19; 20; 21; 27, p. 175; 31; 32; WPA-60. MAP 6, L-7 |
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182. Stony Point Battlefield Stony Point Park Stony Point, NY 6 graves (1811-1815)* 10 x 12 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. Aka Ten Eyck Cemetery. Palisades Interstate Park, near Stony Point Battlefield. Off Rt 9W, Stony Point 6 graves in woods to the left of the drive going to the battlefield entrance, poor condition. |
13, # 87; 19; 20; 30; 32; WPA-87. |
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182a. Goetschius Cemetery
Stony Point |
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182b. Call Burial Ground
Captain Faldemeyer Drive Stony Point, NY
5 stones plus fieldstones |
?Call/Palmer, Old Gate Hill Cemetery?
The road was named for Captain Harold Faldemeyer who died while serving a second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is located on the road between house #25 and #27, opposite sign for Brainer Drive.
Easement between 2 properties. Low stone wall with steps at entrance
On hill north and west of Palmer House
North of Willow Grove Road and East of Letchworth Village property, on Captain Faldemeyer Drive. |
32; WPA-101. |
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182c. Call/Palmer
behind 407 Gate Hill Road Stony Point, NY
27 graves + field stones |
Aka Gate Hill Cemetery, Gate Hill Road Cemetery.At rear of the estate of Mrs. James PalmerCall Hollow Road to Gate Hill Road, as Gate Hill Road starts it's climb up on your right, located behind a private house. Up old dirt road. Near the Willow Grove School House, District No. 3.
2 miles West of Willow Grove School House at foot of Gate Hill, ° mile north of road on mountain side, Town of Haverstraw. |
BC-45; WPA-54 |
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182d. Phillips-Smith
Stony Point |
Abandoned. |
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182e. Osborne Burial Ground
Stony Point, NY |
In development. Sect 14, Plat 70D2, D3. (or 7002/3)
West of the Road from Stony Point to Haverstraw, at top of hill, where road rises for crossing ravine of Cedar Pond Brook, S. of ravine.
East Maple Avenue, near Goodman, in a development, Sect 14, plot 7002/3. |
31 (#3); 31 (E); 32. |
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182f. Osborn-Brooks Burial Ground
3 stones |
In Hillside Cemetery?
On a hill west of the road (Crickettown Rd) which leaves the main east-west highway in the Village of Stony Point, about ° mile west of the Presbyterian Church |
32; BC. |
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183. Abandoned Cemetery 350 ft. SE of Beaver Pond Dam 5 graves (field stones) 10 x 20 ft. |
Poor Cemetery?, Abandoned. 350' SE of Beaver Pond dam, only field stones
800 ft South of new lake. Only field stones on site.
Land of Robert & Laura Champeau and Alice Baisley
Originally about 40 graves.
1960 remains to be moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery (Mount Rest) |
19; 30; 32; WPA-104. |
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183a. Beaver Pond Cemetery
Sandyfield/Stony Point, NY
Ca. 40-60 graves
50 x 60 ft |
Abandoned cemetery, removed (1960) to Mount Rest (Cedar Hill Cemetery), Stony Point, NY, 1960. Gravestones documented, many only marked by fieldstones. Site became the Lake Welch Recreation Area (Lake Welch Beach Area).
Formerly owned by families of Robert and Laura Champeau and Alice Baisley. |
31; 32. |
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184. Babcock, Odell, Baisley Graves
Gate Hill Road Stony Point, NY 55 graves 0.25 acre |
Private, Abandoned. Jones & Odell & Baisley Plot.
Jones-Babcock-Baisley-Odell Burial Ground, Jones/Odell/Baisley/Babcock Cemeteries. The Hill Cemetery, Gate Hill Cemetery. 2 adjacent burial sites. E of Gate Hill Cemetery, on Gate Hill Road
250 ft North Intersection Willow Grove/Gate Hill Rds and Call Hollow Road
Willow Grove Road intersection with Gate Hill and Calls Hollow Road.
North of junction, of Call Hollow Road and Willow Grove Road, up on a hill on north.
Intersection of Calls Hollow Road, Gate Hill Road.
West side of road from Stony Point to Thiells, 1 mile North of Thiells.
Just east of the meeting of Calls Hollow Road and Gate Hill, on the left side if you are driving toward Haverstraw.
WPA, 1936, 2 adjoining sites on a steep hill (one with Baisley, Livsey, Odell, Phillips and Wood; other with Babcock, Jones, Secor and Smith).
2 Adjacent sites, named at various time Jones/Odell/Baisley and Babcock; Jones/Babcock.
(Adjacent to Jones Cemetery, below) |
13, # 53; 19; 20; 30; 32; WPA-53/54. |
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185. Blanchard Burial Ground Rt 210 9 graves (1845-1875)* 50 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, 1967
Part of the farm of John Blanchard, later purchased by the Conklin Family (near Dikens/Dykens Burial Plots); On a high, wooded bank on Gate Hill Road, East of intersection with Blanchard Road, Harriman State Park.
Near WPA-38, On the North side of Gate Hill Road, near the intersection of the Palisades Interstate parkway on a high sandy bank directly opposite the old Ski Stony Point Center. A footpath to the left makes an easier ascent.
° mile west of the southern entrance to the Palisades Interstate Parkway, Exit 14. On the north side of Rte. 210 on a sandy knoll opposite the old Ski Stony Point Center. (Gate Hill near WPA-8).
Rt 210, Opposite old Ski Stony Point.
Opposite the entrance to Stony Ridge Estates, 1/10 mile West of PIP, on hillside off Rt 210.
It was at the North end of a sand pit, on a sandy knoll opposite the Ski Stony Point Center.
See # 225.
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186. Burn & Thiell Family Burial Ground at Marian Shrine Stony Point, NY 30 graves (1812-1895)* 40 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. 300 ft. NE of Filors Lake & 40 ft. West of road. |
19; 30. |
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187. Old Bulson Cemetery Bulsontown Road 81 Cedar Flats Road Stony Point, NY 40 graves (1812-1904)* 75 x 50 ft. |
Old Bulson Burial Site, Rose Bulson Cemetery, Dikens Burial Plot. Private, Abandoned, 1967 75 ft E of Mary Lent house.on Bulsontown Rd.
#81 Cedar Flats Road (formerly Schermerhorn property) at south edge of Lucian Conklin's property. Site is at back of property. 24 stones recorded in 2001. Another cemetery is behind the stone wall.
Property recently owned by Brigandy family, surrounded by a rock wall, directly in rear of the property. 17 tombstones recorded by the Dumont Archeological Services. On the other side of the wall were 3 other stones.
Off Rt 210, bear right past Pymgyp Schoolhouse. On Cedar Flats Road, on private driveway, behind yellow house, just past a trailer park. Cannot be seen from road. Get permission from homeowner.
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/bulsom/rose.htm
24 stones recorded, 2001.
See WPA-38. |
13, # 79; 19; 20; 29; 31; 32; WPA-79. MAP 2, J-5 |
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188. Cedar Hill Cemetery Crickettown Road 50 x 50 ft. |
Active, 1967. On the Crickett Town Rd about 600' south of the Hoyt Home. |
20, SD. MAP 3, K-5 |
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189. Crickett Town Road Cemetery 0.25 mi N of Rt 202 Stony Point, NY 20 graves (1821-1880)* 30 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. Hoyt, Albert, et. al. 17A Crickettown Road
From Old 210, Crickettown Road, and J F Kennedy Drive (Timberland Estates), right fork, go to last house, right of way to site,
0.25 mi W of Presbyterian Church |
13, # 13; 19; 20, 29; 30. MAP 3, K-5 |
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190. Dikens Burial Plot Stony Point, NY 1 grave (1829), 8 x 4 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. Old Bulson Burial Plot. (see 187.) Rt 210, 800 ft. SW intersection Stony Point Rd (Rt 210), S of Gate Hill; 400 ft SW of Mary Lent Home (1936). ? On Rt 210, near Blanchard Site.
Old Bulson's Site (WPA-79) is at Schermerhorn's Cedar Flats Road on Mary Lent Property. |
13, # 38; 19; 20; 32; WPA-38. |
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200. Casselee-Hoyt Cemetery Liberty Drive (Stony Point) Tomkins Cove, NY 25-33 stones 100 x 100 ft. |
Active, 1967. Hoyt/Casscles Cemetery On Rt 9W, 1 mi N of former Tomkins Cove School Site is located on the east side of Liberty Drive, a half mile north of Cays Hill Road, 1/10 mile South of Katarolos Drive, near a cement platform that once held a diner.
Past Liberty Drive, on right-hand side of road and 10 feet from spot where s cement platform is located. |
20, SA; 30; 32. |
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201. James & DeCamp Burial Ground Crickettown Road 13 graves (1850-1861)* 50 x 75 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, 1967.
James DeCamp, James-DeCampSame as WPA-13, buried in Hillside Cemetery. On Cricket Town Road. Behind old stable building, at Methodist Episcopal Church (or western part of Mount Rest Cemetery. |
13, # 94; 19; 20; 30; 31; 32; WPA-94. MAP 3, K-5 |
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202. Job DeCamp Graves Stony Point, NY 4 graves, plus vault 25 x 25 ft. |
Job DeCamp Burial VaultPrivate, Abandoned, destroyed by school kids. Fate of burials unknown. 2 mi N of Thiells on the Adler Place, on a road leading to a private school. There is also a vault on this ground (destroyed 1970's).
Thiells Road, opposite Goetschius Road.
On a knoll, located within a housing development on what was once Fehsal Property, (sold 1987) and site of Collaberg School. The road leading off Thiells Road went to the former Collaberg School.
Small concrete building with a wooden door, covered with a thin piece of metal. Appears that remains were removed, ca. 1970's, when a housing development was built, no records found,.
No door on vault, stones broken and scattered.
Thiells Road opposite Goetschius/Cartwright Road, Stony Point. Said to be a burial vault, 1936. |
13, # 71; 19; 20; 31; 32; WPA-71. |
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203. Call Family Burial Ground 407 Gate Hill Road Stony Point, NY. 12 graves listed (1840-1852)* 30 x 40 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, 1967. Call/Palmer Burial Ground, Gate Hill CemeteryBabcocks, Calls Off # 407 Gate Hill Road (see property owner). Rear of property formerly reported as being near the Willow Grove School District #3.
Near (North) Willow Grove Schoolhouse, E of Willow Grove Rd.
On old John Bosfield Property, south of house number 29, Captain Faldemeyer DriveNorth of Willow Grove Road. 1936 - 27 graves and field stones. Between house # 25 and # 27, opposite Bainer Drive.
See 204, below |
5, V9; 13, # 101; 19; 20; 30; 31; 32; BC-45; WPA. |
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204. Gate Hill Cemetery 407 Gate Hill Road 50 x 50 ft. 27 grave and field stones 12 stones, 1918. |
Active, 1967. See Call/Palmer Burial Ground. (#203.) 1 mi. W of former Willow Grove former School At rear of the former estate of Mrs. James Palmer. |
20, SF; 30; 32. |
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205. Jones, Allison Graves Thiells Road Stony Point, NY 15 graves (1834-1867)* 75 x 100 ft. |
Jones-Allison, Jones/Allison, Jones & AllisonPrivate, Abandoned, 1967 In a field on W side of road from Stony Point to Thiells, about 1 mi N of Thiells
Thiells Road, opposite Birchway Road, Stony Point, formerly reported as 1000" west of Goetchius Bridge Road, 2/10 mile North of Willow Grove Road, approximately 600" South of motel. 2 plots about 20 x 40 enclosed by a stone wall in which there is one remaining stone (Mary A. Rose).
On former William T. Overgard/Evergard Property. Adjacent to this site on the Waldron Apartments Property (old motel) a single stone monument remains (Obelisk of Mary A. Rose). |
13, # 39; 19; 20; 30; 31; 32; WPA-39; BC-42. |
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205a. Rose Burial Ground |
At the Waldron Apartments, Thiells Road.Tall obelisk, Mary A. Rose, adjacent to the Jones/Allison Burial Ground on the Overgard Property. No other stones, 2006 |
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206. Jones Cemetery Willow Grove Road Stony Point, NY 40 graves (1847-1854) 0.5 acres |
Private, Abandoned. Adjacent to Babcock/Baisley/Call |
19; 30. |
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206a. Jones-Babcock Cemetery
(Willow Grove) Stony Point, NY |
Calls Hollow Road and Willow Grove Road meet. On your right, up on hill. Well kept.
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/jones/index.htm
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/jones/jones_babcock.htm http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/jones/jones_babcock_brian.htm Lat: 41° 13.17 N, Lon: 074° 02.34 W |
MAP 2, H-6. |
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206b. Hillside Cemetery
Ann Ave (or Street) Stony Point, NY
20 graves (1821-1880) or 32 graves
39 x 50 ft |
Aka DeCamp-Osborn-Lamoreauz Cemetery, Cricket Town Road Cemetery.Site sits on a knoll off Crickettown Road, on the north side of J. F. Kennedy Drive (Timberland Estates). There is an easement-rights entrance between houses #5 and #7. Situated above (rear a distance from) Mt. Rest Cemetery. Site restored as Eagle Scout Project May 1988.
Family Burial Ground on a hill a short distance West of the road which leaves the Main East and West Highway through the village of Stony Point about ° of a mile West of the Presbyterian Church. The cemetery being about one fourth of a mile North of the junction point of the two roads.
Cemetery is behind property on Hollister Court, adjacent to Spring Valley Water Co Property.
Located on Ann Avenue (off Crickettown Road, North side of J. F. Kennedy Drive), easement entrance between house #5 and #7. 1987, Eagle Scout Project.
See WPA-94. |
32; WPA-13; BC-42. |
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Belding Burying Ground
Stony Point, NY
8 names |
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206c. Unknown Cemetery |
Small cemetery, North of Old Rt 210, and just North of John F. Kennedy Drive, behind plot # 14, just SW of Hollister Court and adjacent to Spring Valley Water Co Property.. |
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207. Lowland Hill
near Hillview Restaurant, Lowland Hill Road, Rt 9W Stony Point, NY 17 graves (1804-1851)* 50 x 50 ft. |
Potter's Field at Lowland Hill.
Private, Abandoned. dis-interred, moved to Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, ca. 1960. Property was owned by Ira Washburn.
Plot adjoining and west of the road from Stony Point to Haverstraw, at top of hill where the road rises from crossing the ravine of Cedar Pond Brook, south of the ravine.
Lowland Hill Road off Liberty Drive.
Rt 9W, 1985, site of Liberty Bell Diner.
Triangular shaped property reported as a Potter's Field.
1950's-1960 re-interred at Mount Repose, when diner built |
19; 30; 32, WPA-35. |
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208. Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery Stony Point, NY 158 graves listed |
243 West Main Street, West of Rt 9W.
Lat: 41° 14' 01.13" N, Lon: 74° 00' 07.62" W |
5, V7, p187, 29. MAP 3, K-6 |
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209. Mount Rest Cemetery 235 (or 230) W. Main St Stony Point, NY 500 x 500 ft. |
Active, 1967 aka Stony Point Methodist Cemetery, Creek Church Cemetery; Hillside Cemetery, St. George Cemetery, Lee Burying Ground, Hoyt Burial Ground; ME Church Cemetery (various sections used for re-burials from dis-interred small cemeteries).
Rt 210, (235 West Main Street), W of 9W, Adj to Methodist Church, old section immediately behind the old barn, behind the church. Sections were named for plot owners - Hoyt, Cedar Hill, etc. First United Methodist Church (formerly First Methodist Church, The Creek Church, St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church), (West of United Presbyterian Church Property). 230 West Main Street Stony Point, NY 845-786-5651
Photos - http://www.graveinfo.com/NY/Rockland/MtRest/mtrest.jpg Lat: 41° 13' 59.72" N, Lon: 74° 00' 04.92" W |
1; 20, SK; 29; 31; 32. MAP 3, K-6 |
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210. Rose Family Cemetery 557 (or 161) Wayne Avenue Stony Point, NY 20 unmarked graves 50 x 50 ft. |
Active, 1967. Well kept. Rose Cemetery, Rose Burial Ground Formerly, Mormontown Road.
Behind a private house, side dirt lane to cemetery. 100 ft to rear of Paul Rose Home, on Wayne Ave. On a high knoll, surrounded by stone wall on west side of road, and south of Hamilton Property. A new easement was established for McCarthy Circle, existing easement extinguished. Adjacent to more recently active Rose Cemetery. Burials - http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/rose_family/rose_fam.htm |
20, SC; 31; 32; BC-42. MAP 3, K-5 |
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210a. Rose Family Cemetery
557 Wayne Avenue and DeCamp Court Stony Point, NY
> 300 graves located by dowsing, 2015. |
Old Rose Cemetery, Stony Point Cemetery. Off Wayne Ave., and DeCamp Court, (South of Bulsontown Road), on Charles B. Miller Property (2007). Stones were removed and piled in a corner, later returned to original burial ground (or to Mount Rest)..
? Stones were removed but returned (Rose, Camp Court).
Henry H. Rose and Family grave stone - 2015 - Cemetery restored by Christopher DeGenarro, as an Eagle Scout Project, with Boy Scout Troop 61.
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210b. Rose Burial Plot
161 (or 557) Wayne Avenue Stony Point
65 stones recorded, 2001 |
Formerly Mormontown Road. Behind the Rose House. The driveway right-of-way leads to the cemetery at the rear of the property. A chain is across the entrance. Owner maintains the site. [Same as # 210?]
The Old Rose Burial Plot is adjacent to the active Rose plot, behind a low stone wall, on Franck Road. (9 stones recorded, 1960's).
On Mormontown Road (Wayne Avenue), on a high knoll, surrounded by a stone wall on the west side of the roads and South of the Hamilton Property. |
32, WPA-69. |
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211. Rose Burial Ground Stony Point, NY 40 x 40 ft. |
Active, 1967.
600 ft W of Robert M. Weyant home |
20, SE. |
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211a. Mary Rose Monument
Thiells Road Stony Point, NY |
Off Thiells Road, on Waldron Apts Property, Adjacent to Jones-Allison Burial Ground, on former Overgard Family Property |
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211a. William Rose Family Cemetery |
Abandoned < 1936, Clarkstown, no trace.
William Rose, about ° mile Northeast of the Buchanan Place on Gate Mountain |
31 (GG). |
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212. John Thompson Burial Ground Washburn Lane Stony Point, NY 3 graves (1850-1853)* 15 x 15 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, destroyed ca. 1967, three graves.
Located on a hill, at Washburn Lane (Mountain Road). Hill leveled, 1967 for housing development. Unknown fate of interments. |
19; 32; WPA-102. MAP 3, K-6 |
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213. Waldron Family Burial Plot Stony Point Village, NY 17 graves (1826-1891)* 50 x 50 ft. |
Waldron Burial Ground, Waldron Family Cemetery Private, Abandoned- 1967 On Springman Property, Rt 210 (1936). N side of road, running W from Stony Point along Cedar Pond Brook, (Rt 210, now 106), ca. 1.5 mi W of Stony Point Village. [On right hand side of junctions of Rt 108 and Rt 106, across from the old ice house and pond on Old Rt 210, now Rt 106.]. Mail box # 235. Bad shape, on a hill.
Location between houses # 231 and # 235.
Along side a private driveway. Formerly Goetschius Ice House property.
Rt 106 (old 210), On a hill next to the driveway of the house at mail box #235; opposite the old ice house.
235, Rt 210, Stony Point on property of Mike Springman. Site is to the right of the steep driveway. Old ice house and Goetchius pond is across the road.
1987 Boy Scout Project
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/waldron_fam/waldronfam.htm l |
4, V6, p140; 13, # 12; 19; 20; 31; 32; WPA-12. |
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214. Samuel Wiant Burial Ground Washburn Lane Stony Point, NY 20 graves (unreadable) 40 x 30 ft. |
? Same as Samuel Washburn Cemetery.
Poor Cemetery, Abandoned, destroyed ca. 1967-70, for housing development.
Family Burial Ground on a hill near Stony Point Village.
Poor condition, destroyed in 1967 to make way for housing development. Fate of burials unknown. |
19; 32; WPA-103; 32. MAP 3, K-6 |
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214a. Watkins Burial Ground
Mott Farm Road Stony Point, NY
4 graves, 2 or 3 field stones |
1000 yards off Mott Farm Road to a sharp left driveway of the first house at Tomkins Ridge Road, Tomkins Cove.
Formerly landlocked off Mott Farm Road, off entrance to new Tomkins Ridge Development.
On a ridge just behind the Tomkins Ridge Housing.
On knoll about 1000 yards South of Mott Farm Road knoll on East side of Road. - past 2nd drainage and large stump. Custom houses to be built
5 stones recorded and several fieldstones |
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215. Small Burial Ground Tomkins Cove Corners, NY 33 graves (1817-1889)* 1 acre |
Public, Abandoned. 0.75 mi W of Tomkins Cove Corners, the corners being 0.3 mi S of the M. E. church |
4, V6, p137; 19. |
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216. Small Burial Ground |
On a hill, short distance W of the road which leaves the main E-W highway through village of Stony Point, 0.25 mi W of the Presbyterian Church. 0.25 mi N of road junction. |
4, V6, p137. |
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217. Old Rose Cemetery Tomkins Cove, NY 20 graves, 1 vault 100 x 100 ft. |
Private, Abandoned, 1967 W of Franck Rd, next to Rose Family Cemetery (# 210.) |
13, # 69; 19; 20; 31; 32. MAP 3, K-5. |
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217a. Dykens-Rose-Bulson-Keesler Burial Site
Liberty Drive Tomkins Cove, NY |
Small burial Ground, ° mile West of Tomkins Cove Corners. The corners were about 1/3 mile South of the M.E. Church, attached, but separate from Rose Cemetery at 165 Wayne Ave, 1/10 mile West of Crickettown Road. Rear of Ann Ave.
7 names recorded. |
32, BC-42. |
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218. Mount Olivet Burial Ground Stony Point/ Tomkins Cove, NY 44 stones plus field stones 50 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. Rose/Lent Burial Ground, Lent Burial Ground, Lent Cemetery
From Rt 9W (North), turn left onto Mott Farm Road, make a left turn onto Rosetown Road. Located near house # 45, at top of hill and on the left side,
Rosetown Road, Stony Point. Route 9W, to a left turn on Mott Farm Road, left onto Rosetown Road, at top of hill on left side.
Well cared for section with another section to south which is uncared for.
Lat: 41° 15' 33.18" N, Lon: 73° 59' 06.46" W |
13, # 95; 19; 20, 29; 30; 32; WPA-95. MAP 3, K-4. |
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219. Rose - Lent Cemetery Tomkins Cove, NY 40 x 40 ft. |
Active, 1967. Rosetown-Lent Cemetery.
On Rosetown Road.
500 ft. NW of school, Rt 9W Same as above? |
20, SB; 31; 32. |
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220. Tomkins Burial Ground Rt 9W, S of Methodist Episcopal Church
33 graves (1817-1889) 1 acre |
Private, Abandoned. On Trap Rock (now Tilcon) Property On a long drive just north of last house, Old route to site between houses # 15, and #17, on Church St, and up the hill through the woods. Off Rt 9W, just North of Tomkins Memorial Church and almost opposite Lynch's Restaurant. Cemetery is past last house.
Elm Street, Tomkins Cove, approximately ° mile from Lovett Plant, west side on an embankment up towards Rt 9W (approach from 9W). |
13, # 5; 20; 30; 32; WPA-5. MAP 3, L-5. |
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Palisades Interstate Park (PIP) Includes Rockland County and Orange County Portions of the Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks. |
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221. St. John's in the Wilderness St. John's Road (Johnsontown Rd) Stony Point, NY, PIP 1 acre |
Active, 1967. Methodist Episcopal Church Burial Plot, Johnsontown Next to old stone church on St. John's Road (Old Johnsontown Road, Rt 210), 0.25 mi E of Lake Welch Drive and 0.5 mi S of Rt 106. Adjacent to St. John's Church on County Road from Beaver (Lake Welch) to Sloatsburg.
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9; 16, p. 49, p. 87; 20, HC; 32. MAP 2, F-6. |
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222. Baileytown Town of Woodbury, Orange Co, NY. 2 graves |
3.5 mi from Long Mountain Circle (Rt 6), South side of Baileytown Road, (now a narrow dirt lane), 0.5 mi past Upper Twin Lake. 4 stones recorded, approx. 14 unmarked graves.
May have originally been an Indian Cemetery. |
16, p. 77; 32. |
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223. Bailey Family Plots Baileytown, Orange Co, NY 7 marked graves ca. 14 unmarked graves |
Family cemetery on family farm, Baileytown, S of Rt 6, 4 mi from Central Valley (Orange Co). |
5, 9, 14; 16, p. 36. |
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224. Becraft Seven Lakes Drive, PIP 2 graves |
0.2 mi from Harriman Park Sign on Seven Lakes Drive. John Becraft Headstone |
16, p. 77; 33.. MAP 2. |
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225. Blanchard Cemetery (Gate Hill) Stony Point, NY 10 graves 50 x 50 ft |
Blanchard Burial Ground. Abandoned, 1967.
Pine Meadow Road.
Stony Brook Drive & Pine Meadow Road. North side of Gate Hill Road, near the PIParkway.
On old Bulson Farm, between Cedar Pond Road and PIP, Stony Point At north end of a sand pit on a sandy knoll opposite the old Ski Stony Point Center. See # 185. |
14; 16, p. 78; 31; 32, 33. MAP 2, H-6. |
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226. Charles Blanchard Burial Ground Pine Meadows Road 20 graves (no stones) 50 x 50 ft. |
Private, Abandoned. Pine Meadow Road (Seven Lakes Drive, Town of Haverstraw) 3 ° miles from Sloatsburg, near Pine Meadow Road, not found, 1991 |
19; 32; BC-42; WPA 108; 33. |
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227. Clarksfield, also called Lakeside June Cemetery
Doodletown, NY - PIP 100 x 100 ft. approx 150 graves, many un-marked. |
Active, 1967. June Family Cemetery #2New family cemetery, begun in 1840, one acre. S side of a park reservoir, on path from Doodletown Road, 1 acre. Approached by a path from Doodletown Road. On the Doodletown Rd. first lane to the left of the 2 stone bridges going west. (Property of PIP). |
5; 20, SG; 31; 32. |
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228. Count Grabouski Grave
Stony Point, NY |
Near the Bear Mountain Zoo, near the bear den.
Polish Nobelman who fought with the British during the American Revolution, killed at Battle for Fort Clinton. |
16, p. 79; 32. |
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229. Doodletown # 1, June Cemetery Doodletown, PIP 2 graves |
June Family Cemetery #1. SE corner of former park nursery, Lemmon Road, greatly disturbed by construction work in the 1930's. Fieldstones dumped as fill. 1935, map showed at least 35 graves.
In the SE corner of the former Park Nursery and greenhouse, on Lemmon Road, in a dense thicket, skirted by the Cross-Country Ski Trail, lies the June Cemetery, inaccessible.
Originally 35 graves. |
15; 16. p. 80; 32. |
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230. Doodletown # 2 Doodletown, NY 27 marked graves 200 x 100,.said to be 1 acre |
June Cemetery, Lakeside Cemetery, Clarkefield Cemetery
Near Lemmon Road, on land of Ethiel June. May have vanished. Includes June family graves, and about 100-150 unmarked graves (1982). On a wooded bluff, overlooking the South side of a Park reservoir, enter from a path going east of Doodletown Road, cross a brook. Same as 227.? |
5: 9; 16, p. 37; 32. |
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231. Doodletown # 3, Herbert Cemetery Doodletown, NY 150 x 150 |
Active, 1967. Weyant-Herbert Cemetery, Herbert-Weyant Cemetery large number of graves, largest of the Doodletown Cemeteries, 50 yards off the east side of Pleasant Valley Road. ° mile W from the intersection with Doodletown Road. Restored as a Boy Scout Project. A number of large monuments. Doodletown Rd. just west of entrance, just east of a Weyant home. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? |
15; 16, p. 39; 20, SH; 31; 32. |
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232. Doodletown, NY PIP 65 recorded graves |
Major Herbert and Johnson families. |
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233. Lake Welch # 1, Odell Sandyfields PIP 8 marked graves, ca. 50 field stone, or unmarked. |
Active, 1967; Abandoned. O'Dell Burial Ground/ O'Dell Burial Plot/Odell Family Cemetery, O'Dell Cemetery. On the North shore of Lake Welch approximately half way between Old Sandyfields and site of New Beach. This plot is undisturbed at this date (Budke). Near the second parking lot of Lake Welch Beach, Sandyfields.. Odell Family, near entrance to (North Shore) Lake Welch, off Rt 210, at end of parking lot # 1. Just beyond the toll booth, on the Odell Place back of the schoolhouse. http://interment.net/data/us/ny/rockland/lake_welch.htm |
9; 16, p. 45, p. 84; 20, SI; 32; BC-42 MAP 2, G-6. |
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234. Lake Welch # 2, Rose grave 1 grave |
near Lake Welch boat launch. |
16, p. 17. MAP 2. |
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235. Lake Welch # 3 Beaver Pond Dam 6 graves |
Removed to build Lake Welch Beach 57 graves were opened. Re-interred, Stony Point Methodist Church. East end of Lake Welch. |
16, p. 84; 32. MAP 2. |
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235a. John Jones
50 x 50 ft. |
1 ° mi. N. W. of Beaver Dam or 1 mi. N. W. of former CCC Camp. |
20, SJ. |
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236. Lake Welch # 4
20 x 20 ft. |
Rockhouse Mountain Cemetery, John R. Jones, John Jones Burying GroundOld Beaver Pond Road, Hanseclever Road, East of Rockhouse Mountain, a steep climb from the Beech trail, outer edge of Sandyfields. |
14; 16, p. 85; 20; 32, 33. MAP 2. |
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237. Lewis Cemetery (Silver Mine) Town of Woodbury |
South side of Seven Lakes Drive, overlooking parking lot. All unmarked graves |
16, p. 19. MAP 2. |
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238. Pine Meadow # 1, (Ramsey Conklin) 4 graves 50 x 50 ft. |
Ramsey Conklin Cemetery. East side of Pine Meadow, near Ramsey Conklin's cabin; Lake Meadow.
19 graves covered by Pine Meadow Lake. |
13, # 106; 16, p. 85; 20; 31; 32. MAP 4, E-9. |
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239. Pine Meadow # 2, (James H. Conklin) 8 graves 100 x 100 ft. |
Jim Conklin Cemetery. South side of Pine Meadow Lake, in the Pine Trees. |
13, # 105; 16, p. 85; 20. MAP 4, E-9. |
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239a. Pine Grove Cemetery
Palisades Interstate Park
Oldest grave - 1826 |
Off Seven Lakes Parkway,
2008 - Cemetery cleared of brush by members of the Historical Society of the Palisades Interstate Park Region. |
Journal News, Aug 10, 2006 |
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240. Pine Meadow # 3, (Samuel Conklin) |
Somewhere under Pine Meadow. Lost. |
16, p. 22. MAP 4, E-9. |
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241. Queensboro Traffic Circle PIP 18 marked graves ca. 100 unmarked |
Queensboro Cemetery. Incl. Brooks, Weyant. East side of Long Mountain Circle (Rt 6 and PIP). Take exit from the circle, heading south on PIP (SE corner of circle). Surrounded by stone wall with iron gate. Readable stones and field stones. |
9; 16, p. 46, p. 87; 32. |
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242. Johnsontown 6 graves 25 x 15 ft |
Active, 1967 (?) 5 Graves in woods. Private, Abandoned. 400 ft SW of school |
13, # 81; 19; 20.; 32, WPA 81. MAP 4. |
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242a. Johnsontown
1 acre |
60" West of the former school. |
20, HB. |
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242b. Johnson Burial Ground
150 x 150 ft. |
100 ft North of former Johnsontown School. |
20, HF. |
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243. Johnsontown
Lake Sebago Beach 12 graves (1821-1884)* 100 x 75 ft |
Active, 1967 (?). Hillside Cemetery? Public, Abandoned. 500 ft NE (or NW) of school. ? Old Burial Ground, 500' N. W. of former school
Lake Sebago Beach, off a dirt road by parking lot #1, near the Sewage Treatment Station. |
13, # 82; 19; 20; 32, WPA 82. MAP 4. |
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244. Edward Conklin Burial Ground, No. 4 Johnsontown 8 graves (1885-)* 20 x 20 ft |
Johnsontown Cemetery # 2, Sebago Beach, Johnsontown Sebago Lake.
Old Tim Conklin Place Private, Abandoned, 1967. Kanawaukee (Circle) Dr near former ME Church
Sebago Lake, west of Parking Lot # 1, South of the Disposal Plant, located by the church. Old Tim Conklin Place, in a pine grove. Johnsontown Cemetery #2, Sebago Beach?
5000 square ft area with tombstones and fieldstones. 2006, Members of the Historical Society of the Palisades Interstate Park cleaned up the site and recovered 183 stones and fieldstones.
? Renamed Pine Grove. (same as # 246?) |
13, # 90; 19; 20; 31; 32; WPA 90. MAP 2, F-6. |
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245. Sebago # 1 Beach Johnsontown |
Photo -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? |
16, p 47. MAP 4, E-7. |
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246. Sebago #2, Entrance Gate Lake Sebago Beach (Johnsontown Cemetery) ca. 5000 ft2
12 marked graves; ca. 150 un-marked |
PIP
Johnsontown, Baisley, Conklin, Johnson, Jones °Johnson Cemetery.
Sebago Beach, off the dirt road, by parking lot # 1, near the Sewage Treatment Plant.
Restored by members of the Historical Society of the Palisades Interstate Park Region, 2008. Re-built bridge.
? Re-named Pine Grove Cemetery.
Same as # 244? |
9, 14; 16, p. 48; 32; WPA 82. MAP 4, E-7. |
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246a. |
Abandoned < 1936.
Rear of old foundation on Lake Sebago Road. |
31 (GG). |
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247. Sebago # 3 Johnsontown, Town of Haverstraw 3 graves plus unmarked graves 150 x 100 ft. |
Near church site (ME), (Old Johnsontown Church) on the road bank, east side of Seven Lakes Drive. Johnsontown Church Cemetery. 75' S. of former M. E. Church location. Across from Pine Grove Cemetery, Seven Lakes Drive, near Sebago Circle.
About 30 fieldstones. West of Parking Lot #1, Sebago Lake, south of the disposal plant. Land was originally owned by James J. Johnson and his wife Adeline. Sold to Rose, then Weir family, then to PIP. |
13, # 80; 16, p. 83; 19; 32; WPA 80. MAP 4, E-7. |
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Sebago # 4 |
Parkway Utility area near the filter beds, near Sebago Beach ?no marked graves
Photo -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? |
16, p. 16. MAP 4, E-7. |
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249. Sebago # 5 Island Hill |
Seven Lakes Drive unmarked graves |
16, p. 16. |
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249a. Lake Sebago |
Graves in rear of old foundation, none found, 1936. |
31 (CC). |
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250. Sebago # 6 Tim's Pond |
Inland from Seven Lakes Drive North, slightly beyond Sebago Beach. unmarked graves |
16, p. 16. MAP 2. |
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251. Summit Lake Town of Woodbury |
S side of Long Mountain Parkway (Rt 6), 11 mi from a locked entrance gate at top of hill. 10-12 unmarked graves |
16, p. 27. |
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252. Waldron Burial Ground Pleasant Valley 1 grave |
Waldron Cemetery. Johnsontown, off Seven Lakes Drive, opp. Sebago Cabin Camp, ca. 50 yards from Road. . |
16, p. 88; 32, BC-42; WPA-107. |
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253. Abram Waldron Burial Ground PIP 20 graves 1864-1897)* 60 x 60 ft. |
Johnsontown - Abraham Waldron Family Burying Ground. Located east of the Seven Lakes Drive (formerly Johnsontown Road) near Lake Sebago, Johnsontown, NY (PIP). Seven Lakes Drive, 500 ft W of entrance to Pine Meadows East of Seven Lakes Drive/Johnsontown Road) near Lake Sebago. |
13, # 107; 19; 20; 32; WPA 107. MAP 4, E-7. |
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253a. Abraham Waldron Burial Ground
Thiells, NY |
Edward Waldron and wife, Anne Secor, and family |
32. |
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St. Elizbeth's Chapel Cemetery
Eagle Valley Road, Tuxedo, (Eagle Valley), NY |
Built in memory of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, dau of William Pierson Hamilton and Juliet Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, who is buried there (beneath the alter?). Now St. Mary's Retreat House. St. Elizabeth's Cemetery, in Chapel yard. |
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Notes:
* death dates on oldest and latest surviving stones.
1. Abandoned is used for cemeteries which are inactive. A cemetery is considered abandoned if there have been no burials for 20 years. Many are on private property, and the current owners have no connection to the graves, but own the ground. Other cemeteries may have family owners, but are inactive, and legal ownership is unknown.
2. The original list was compiled by Laurie Byrd <navy81flash.net>,
August 1998. Sources included the book Cemeteries of the U.S.
by Deborah M. Burek, information from the Historical Society of Rockland
County, and the website "Political Graveyard" at http://potifos.com/tpg/geo/NY/kmindex.html.
Also HV/Net has a small list athttp://www.hvnet.com/tour/ro/hist/chruch.htm.
3. Additional information may be obtained from funeral homes in Rockland County. The Genealogical Society of Rockland County is in the process of copy, recording, computerizing and sorting both cemetery and funeral home records for eventual paper or electronic publication. For further information about these projects and available records, contact:
Les Baisley
Mike Secora
Information on Jewish Funeral records may be available from:
Hellman Memorial Chapels, Inc.
15 State Street
Spring Valley, NY 10977
845-356-8600
Additional information was abstracted from the references below by Robert L. Protzmann.
2. Krell, Peter: So That All May Be Remembered, Vol 1, Clarkstown Bicentennial Commission, 1989 (out of print).
3. Rockland County Yellow Pages, Bell Atlantic, 1998-99.
4. Budke, George H.: Tomb Stone Inscriptions: Small Cemeteries in Rockland County, NY and Bergen County, NJ; The Budke Collection, NY, 1916-1920. (manuscript) Vol 2, 6 - 9. [NCL RR 929.5 BUD].
Note: The Budke Collection is a series of manuscripts by George Budke, Rockland County Historian. The originals are in the Manuscript Collection of the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. Copies of selected portions are available in the New City Library. The Tombstone Inscriptions for Rockland County are in sections BC-38, BC-42, BC-43, BC-44 and BC-45.
5. Smeltzer-Stevenot, Marjorie: Footprints in the Ramapos, Life in the Mountains before the State Parks, Bookmasters, Inc. Ashland, OH, 1993. [NCL 974.728 STE].
6. Knight, Robert: Centennial History of Pearl River New York, Pearl River Centennial Committee, 1973. [NCL 974.728 KNI].
7. Barber, Gertrude A.: Graveyard Inscriptions of Rockland County, NY, Including Cemeteries in Tappan, Nyack, Ladentown, Sparkill, Germonds, Wesley Chapel Center, New City, Ramapo, Nanuet, Congers, Orangeburg, Pearl River, Blauvelt, New York, 1931 (manuscript). [NCL RR 929.5 BAR].
Note: Each Volume contains an alphabetical index.
8. Clark, Alan R.: Tombstone Inscriptions. Cemetery located corner of Congers Road and Evergreen Road, New City. [NCL RR 929.5 CLA].
9. Helms, Thomas: A Compilation of Cemetery Stone Recordings within the Harriman-Bear Mountain Interstate Park System. (Vanished towns and the Episcopal Church of St John's in the Wilderness). [NCL RR 929.5HEL].
10. Helms, Thomas: Cemetery Stone Records of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church. [NCL RR 929.5 HEL].
11. Johnson, Beatrice Davis: Disinterments, Presbyterian Church, Nyack, NY. (A listing of burials removed to Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY, 1869.)
12. Koestler, Marie S.: M. Montgomery Maze Cemetery Records. (Listings of grave markers from cemeteries in Pearl River, Blauvelt and Tappan.) Indexed. Includes Tappan Cemetery; Old Cemetery, Pearl River; Old Sickeltown, Greenbush Road; Old Clarkstown First Reformed Dutch Church, Germonds Road; Mosestown (Martinus-Hogencamp); Pearl River Methodist Episcopal; Greenbush Methodist Episcopal; Old Gisner; Pascack Reformed Church, NJ; Old Perry Cemetery; Haring (Old Tappan, NJ); Old Post Cemetery (Rivervale, NJ); Old Palisades Cemetery (Old Tappan, NJ); Snyders Burying Ground (Valley Cottage), New City Cemetery; Johnsontown Cemetery. [NCL RR 929.5 KOE].
13. Loescher, Frederick: List of Active and Abandoned Cemeteries in the County of Rockland.
14. Stevenot, Marjorie S.: Footprints in the Ramapos,
15. O'Meara, Edward J.: Tombstone Inscriptions in the HERBERT and JUNE cemeteries in the Palisades Interstate Park, New City, NY 1984. [NCL RR 929.5 OME].
16. Smeltzer-Stevenot, Marjorie: Old Burying Grounds within Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks, Bookmasters, Inc., Ashland, OH 44805, 1992. Contains maps locating individual cemetery and garve sites. [NCL RR 929.5 STE].
17. Johnson, Beatrice Davis: Disinterments, Presbyterian Ground, Nyack, NY, 1869, Typescript, 1974. 50 graves listed. [NCL RR 929.5 JOH].
18. Wales, William: Rockland Cemetery, Illustrated, Anson D. F. Randolph & Co, New York, NY, 1881. (a history) [NCL RR 929.5 WAL].
19. 1936 WPA RCPB SURVEY. Performed for the Rockland County Planning Board. [GSRC files]
20. Loescher, Frederick, Rockland Couny Burial Commissioner: List of Active and Abandoned Cemeteries in the County of Rockland, July 26, 1967. [NCL, GSRC Files].
21. Mellet, Dorothy W.: Gravestone Art in Rockland County, New York, Hudson Valley Press, Tappan, NY, 1991. [NCL RR 731.76 MEL].
22. Private communication, Piermont Village Historian to Sally Dewey.
23. Private communication, Sally Dewey to R. L. Protzmann
24. Haagensen, Alice Munro: Palisades and Snedens Landing, From the Beginning of History to the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Pilgrimage Publishing, Tarrytown, NY, 1986.
25. Worden, Jean D.: Revised Master Index to the New York State DAR Genealogical Records Volumes, Book 1.General Peter Gansevoort Chapter, Albany, NY 1998. [NCL RR 369.135 REV]. Index by name of NY individuals whose cemetery records are in the DAR records.
26. Private Communication, Marie Koestler to R. L. Protzmann, May 2, 1999
27. Cole, History of Rockland County
28. Green, Frank Bertangue - The History of Rockland County, The Historical Society of Rockland County, 1989.
29. GSRC Cemetery Files in possession of Marie Koestler, 2014.
30. Personal Communication of Marie Koestler to Robert L. Protzmann, 2014 (Clarkstown Cemeteries).
31. List of Active and Abandoned Cemeteries in the County of Rockland, Frederick Loescher, Spring valley, NY, 1967.
32. Personal Communication of Marie Koestler to Robert L. Protzmann, 2014 (Haverstraw and Stony Point Cemeteries).
33. Personal Communication of Marie Koestler to Robert L. Protzmann, 2014 , GSRC Cemetery Files, (Ramapo Cemeteries).
| Conklin-Gesner Burial Ground
Above Rt 340,, just S of NY line Rockleigh, NJ 100 x 100 ft. |
Private, Abandoned
Begun in 1788. Includes burials of Rockland Co families from across the border. |
20; 24. |
| Hillside Cemetery Corp. | 50 Mulberry St. Middletown, NY 10940 |
1. |
| St. Stephen's Cemetery | 75 Sanfordville Rd. Warwick, NY 10990 |
1. |
| Fort Montgomery
1 grave (Cole) |
Route 9W, Town of Highlands | 1, p. 82. |
| Old St. Mary°s on-the-hill
(Roman Catholic) Arden, NY |
On Rt 17, slightly S of entrance to Clove Furnace at Arden. | 14; 16, p. 68. |
Notes:
* death dates on oldest and latest surviving stones.
1. Abandoned is used for cemeteries which are inactive. A cemetery is considered abandoned if there have been no burials for 20 years. Many are on private property, and the current owners have no connection to the graves, but own the ground. Other cemeteries may have family owners, but are inactive, and legal ownership is unknown.
2. The original list was compiled by Laurie Byrd <navy81
flash.net>, August 1998. Sources included
the book Cemeteries of the U.S. by Deborah M. Burek,
information from the Historical Society of Rockland County, and the
website "Political Graveyard" at http://potifos.com/tpg/geo/NY/kmindex.html.
Also HV/Net has a small list at http://www.hvnet.com/tour/ro/hist/chruch.htm.
3. Addition information may be obtained from funeral homes in Rockland County. The Genealogical Society of Rockland County is in the process of copy, recording, computerizing and sorting both cemetery and funeral home records for eventual paper or electronic publication. For further information about these projects and available records, contact:
Les Baisley
Mike Secora
Information on Jewish Funeral records may be available from:
Hellman Memorial Chapels, Inc.
15 State Street
Spring Valley, NY 10977
845-356-8600
The larger cemeteries in Rockland County can be found on street maps. The following list of cemeteries (which may not be on the above list) was taken from:
Hagstrom°s Bergen/Rockland Counties Atlas, Large Scale Edition, Hagstrom Map Company, Inc., Maspeth, NY, 1989
Additional information will be added in the future.
Additional References - Cemetery Information
WebPages
A database of over 3,000 interment records for Mount Repose can be searched at http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/. Pull down the "Location" menu and select "Rockland Co, NY". Then fill in your desired surname and select "Search". Unfortunately, you can only search for one surname at a time, and cannot simply browse the database.
Rockland Co. interment records submitted by individuals can be found at the Cemetery Records Online site at http://www.interment.net/us/ny/rockland.htm
For the meanings of symbols on old tombstone carvings, see This and That Cemetery <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/cemetery.htm>
For information about the Rockland Room collection at the New City Library, see <http://www.newcitylibrary.org/rockland.html>. For specific information about their cemetery record holdings, see <http://www.newcitylibrary.org/rockland/CEMETERY.html>
Maps for locating cemeteries, see <http://www.sar.org/geneal/cemtmaps.htm>. Although limited numbers of cemeteries are listed, the links provide maps from the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, which can be ZOOMed to show exact locations of listed cemeteries. The listings are by state and county. The Rockland Co, NY listing contains 14 cemeteries.
Books
Mellet, Dorothy W.: Gravestone Art in Rockland County, New York, Hudson Valley Press, Tappan, NY, 1991. [NCL RR 731.76 MEL].
Meyer, Richard E., edit: Cemeteries and Gravemarkers, Voices of American Culture, Utah State University Press, Logan, Utah, 1992. [NCL RR 731.76 CEM]
Schafer, Louis S.: Tombstones of Your Ancestors, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowle, MD, 1991. [NCL RR 731.76 SCH].
Strangstad, Lynette: A Graveyard Preservation Primer, AASLH Press, 1988. [NCL RR 736.5 STR].
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