Old Gravesend Cemetery

Historic cemetery in Brooklyn, New York

United States historic place

Significant dates

Old Gravesend Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New York City Landmark


40°35′40″N 73°58′30″W / 40.59444°N 73.97500°W / 40.59444; -73.97500
Area	1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built	1658
NRHP reference No.	80002635^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 17, 1980
Designated NYCL	March 23, 1976

Old Gravesend Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Gravesend Neck Road and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The cemetery was founded about 1658 and contains the graves of a number of the original patentees and their families. Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend, is believed to be buried in the cemetery.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Bradley T. Frandsen; Joan R. Olshansky & Elizabeth Spencer-Ralph (December 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Old Gravesend Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying 21 photographs