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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Queens or Queens County, New York. Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the largest borough of New York City in area and is adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island, with Nassau County to the east. Queens also shares water borders with ...
The Evergreens Cemetery resides in Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. Also known as Cemetery of the Evergreens and Evergreens Cemetery, the cemetery is still active. The earliest recorded graves date from 1740. The Cemetery of the Evergreens is a non-denominational cemetery in Brooklyn, New York and partly in Queens. The Evergreens Cemetery, a historic cemetery in the 'rural' styl...
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...
Wikipedia York College of The City University of New York is one of eleven senior colleges in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. It is located in Jamaica, Queens in New York City. Founded in 1966, York was the first senior college founded under the newly formed CUNY system, which united several previously independent public colleges into a single public university system in 1961. ...
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
Also known as Calvary Allied Cemetery , Calvary Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States with 3 million burials. "Located in the Woodside/Long Island City area of Queens, Calvary is the first major cemetery to be established beyond the island of Manhattan by the Trustees of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The Alsop farm, with a family cemetery and an additional 115 acres, was purchased i...
Acacia Cemetery 83-84 Liberty Avenue Ozone Park, Queens County, New York is in two locations. The cemetery shares land, side by side, with two other cemeteries—Bayside Cemetery and Mokom Sholom Cemetery. These three Jewish cemeteries are apart of the New York City Cemetery Project. "Beginning in the 1860s, cemetery corporations began to acquire tracts of land near Jamaica Bay to create what ...
The cemetery is owned by Jewish Congregation Shaare Zedek. It is only open on Sundays from 9 AM-3 PM and you have to call two weeks ahead for a visitation. It was founded in 1865, making it one of the oldest Jewish Cemeteries in the New York City area. In recent years, there has been a restoration project going on to restore the cemetery to its former glory. It is located on 80-35 Pitkin Aven...
Maple Grove Cemetery resides in Kew Gardens, Queens County, New York. This historic cemetery includes graves from the late 1780s and is an active cemetery at present. "Maple Grove Cemetery was established by a group of six Brooklyn businessmen in 1875 - late in the period of rural cemetery development. Until that time most rural cemeteries were created through the purchase of large tracts of l...
Wikipedia =Cypress Hills National Cemetery is the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in the Reformed Church of Newtown Cemetery From Six To Celebrate : Founded by Dutch settlers, the original building for this church was a small, octagonal wooden structure with a high-pitched roof, constructed in 1731. It was in use for almost one hundred years and served as an armory for the British during the Revolutionary War. Demolished in 1831, it was re...
This project is for those buried in Prospect Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens County, New York. Many prominent families are buried in this, the oldest cemetery in NYC, such as the Brinkerhoffs, the Van Wycks, the Sutphins, The Remsens, The Nostrands and the Lefferts. Notable Burials Egbert Benson (1746-1833) - US Congress Gen. Increase Carpenter (1736-1807) - Member of the Sons of Liberty an...
Official Cemetery Web Site =Mount Zion Cemetery encompasses an area of 78 acres. This cemetery is located in Maspeth, Queens near the Manhattan Border. The first burial took place on May 5, 1893. When this cemetery was first established the surrounding area was considered to be rural. There was an ongoing need for burial spaces to accommodate the explosion of the immigrant population in not onl...