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Flushing Cemetery has several predecessors. In the year 1789 (64 years before the cemetery was founded), George Washington had crossed the East River on a personal mission aboard his barge. Washington, like other noted landowners, journeyed to Flushing: The community was a center of scientific horticulture. The cemetery's floral and arboreal beauty have become a memorial to Flushing's status as...
In 1645, Flushing , then a town called Vlissengen , was granted a charter by the Dutch West India Company and became a part of New Netherlands . It was settled largely by English families, similar to English settlements at Gravesend, Hempstead, and Jamaica, Long Island. A respected Flushing colonist, Henry Townsend , held a Quaker meeting in his home and was fined and banished. Flushing citize...
Cedar Grove Cemetery was originally part of the estate of colonial governor Cadwallader Colden. It officially opened in 1893 and 5 years later, in 1897, 20,000 souls from Union Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY were disinterred and moved there. Both the Colden Family burial ground and Mount Hebron, the Jewish cemetery are sections of Cedar Grove. Official Website Find a Grave Interment.net