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"Cold Springs Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Lockport in Niagara County, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
A lovely example of a Victorian rural cemetery, Cold Springs Cemetery was crucial in the development of the City and Town of Lockport, New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thus making Cold Springs the oldest cemetery in the city and town of Lockport."
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This resting place of many Niagara County’s most famous residents includes:
Birdsall Holley 1820-1894 – Inventor
Jessie Hawley – Proponent of the Erie Canal System was by trade a Flour Merchant
Charlotte Cross – Educator
Cuthbert W. Pound, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1932
to 1934. Brother of John E. Pound.
Edward Chase – whose brother was Secretary of Treasury under Abraham Lincoln -
Chase was noted for his stone mansion on High and Washburn Streets
Lyman Spalding 1811 - 1864 and Joel McCollum (one of the first developers in lowertown) – both local Entrepreneurs
James Shuler – Stonemason and Quarry owner (building of the stone wall at Cold Springs Cemetery)