Old Town Burying Ground
Also known as Denton Green Cemetery
Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA
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Hempstead, New York 11550 United StatesCoordinates: 40.70944, -73.62278 - Cemetery ID:
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This cemetery, known as "Town Cemetery" was on ground belonging to the township of Hempstead and consequently was greatly neglected. The ground was finally given into the charge of the Village Trustees and they had the place carefully surveyed by Thomas V. Smith, so as to locate each grave, and a copy of each inscription filed with the Village Clerk and the stones put under ground and a park made of the space. This Park lies next east of the Presbyterian Church. The stones were covered in 1897.
-Josephine C. Frost 'Cemetery inscriptions from Hempstead, Long Island New York'
On the 1873 Hempstead map from the Atlas of Long Island by Beers, Comstock, & Cline, the Old Town Burying Ground was shown as adjacent to and east of the Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Cemetery (located behind the church) and adjacent to and west of the New Cemetery, which was west of the Presbyterian Parsonage (now occupied by Christ's First Presbyterian Church) on the northwest corner of the intersection of Fulton Street and Washington Street.
This cemetery, known as "Town Cemetery" was on ground belonging to the township of Hempstead and consequently was greatly neglected. The ground was finally given into the charge of the Village Trustees and they had the place carefully surveyed by Thomas V. Smith, so as to locate each grave, and a copy of each inscription filed with the Village Clerk and the stones put under ground and a park made of the space. This Park lies next east of the Presbyterian Church. The stones were covered in 1897.
-Josephine C. Frost 'Cemetery inscriptions from Hempstead, Long Island New York'
On the 1873 Hempstead map from the Atlas of Long Island by Beers, Comstock, & Cline, the Old Town Burying Ground was shown as adjacent to and east of the Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Cemetery (located behind the church) and adjacent to and west of the New Cemetery, which was west of the Presbyterian Parsonage (now occupied by Christ's First Presbyterian Church) on the northwest corner of the intersection of Fulton Street and Washington Street.
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- Added: 13 Mar 2007
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2209895
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