Potter's Field Forty-fifth Street
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
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Get directions West 45th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues
Manhattan, New York, USACoordinates: 40.76221, -73.99523 - Cemetery ID:
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Add PhotosA public cemetery for Manhattan's poor and victims of contagious diseases, it was situated on the north side of West Forty-fifth Street, between Tenth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue.
It was the successor to the Potter's Field on East 50th Street, and it served as Manhattan's Potter's Field concurrently with (but preferentially to) the Potter's Field on Randall's Island.
It was superseded by the Potter's Field at Ward's Island in June 1852).
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▫ Years of use: 1845 — 1851.
▫ Cemetery disposition: Destroyed.
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The site is now occupied by brick tenements.
A public cemetery for Manhattan's poor and victims of contagious diseases, it was situated on the north side of West Forty-fifth Street, between Tenth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue.
It was the successor to the Potter's Field on East 50th Street, and it served as Manhattan's Potter's Field concurrently with (but preferentially to) the Potter's Field on Randall's Island.
It was superseded by the Potter's Field at Ward's Island in June 1852).
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▫ Years of use: 1845 — 1851.
▫ Cemetery disposition: Destroyed.
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The site is now occupied by brick tenements.
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- Added: 14 Apr 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2575866
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