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Baker Street Cemetery is located in Schroon Lake, Essex County, New York.
"Burial Ground of Schroon Lake's First Settlers"
Known also as the "Old Burying Ground" and "Old Baker Street Cemetery", Baker Street burials are recorded from the early 1800s through the early 1900s.
"Baker Street Cemetery is abandoned and the last burials there were in the 1900s. It is presently located about a mile south of Schroon Lake, and about a 100m west of Route 9, just south of Charlie Hill Rd. It is on private land, that at one time was Baker property. When an initial survey was done around 1919-1924 about half the stones were missing. Presently the cemetery is not being maintained, and in a survey done in 1961 additional stones were noted missing from the earlier inventory. Circa, 2003, Patti Andrus visited the cemetery, and by then the local family had removed some of the markers and put them at the back of the cemetery.
Over the last 40 years a number of restoration projects were attempted. In 2007 another restoration project was begun under the coordination of Joanne Treffs, and it's restoration has been impressive. There are 117 burials accounted for in this cemetery, and of those 107 markers have been found."
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NNY Tombstone Project
- Haviland, Frank, "Essex and Warren County Cemetery Records." Albany, NY: typescript, 1925. (FHL microfilm 532968, Item 2). pp9-14, "Baker Street Cemetery."
- Taylor, Andrew Jackson. "A Talk & Reminiscences Concerning the Taylor and Fowler Families." pamphlet, 1918., p13. ... One and 1/4 miles south of Schroon Lake village the School District No. 2 and the street running through the same was ever after, Baker settlement called Baker Street." p16. "The cemetery on Baker St. and near rear of the building on the farm where I was born, 1 1/2 miles south of the S.L. village, was the first public burying ground. Nearly all the first ancestors were interred in the Baker St. Cemetery."
- "Baker Street Cemetery" notebook of Paul Stapley, late town historian for Schroon Lake, Essex Co, NY. It is now located at the Schroon Lake Public Library, P.O. Box 398, Schroon Lake, NY 12870. According to the librarian, this notebook was last redone by Mr. Stapley about 1992.