List of African-American cemeteries in New York

This is a list of African-American Cemeteries in New York.

Individual cemeteries

Cemetery name County City or Town
Cemetery of the Asbury Colored Peoples Church Westchester Harrison
Montgomery "Colored Cemetery" Orange Montgomery
African Burial Ground National Monument[1] New York County (Manhattan) City of New York
Flatbush African Burial Ground Kings (Brooklyn) City of New York
Old Town of Flushing Burial Ground Queens City of New York
Harlem African Burial Ground New York (Manhattan) City of New York
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park Richmond (Staten Island) City of New York
Mount Moor African-American Cemetery Rockland West Nyack
Rye African American Cemetery Westchester Rye
New Paltz Rural Cemetery (segregated section)[2] Ulster New Paltz
Newburgh Colored Burial Ground Orange Newburgh
Turkey Hill Colored Cemetery Milan, New York[3] Dutchess Milan, New York

References

  1. ^ "African Burial Ground National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
  2. ^ "Site of African-American Burial Ground - New York Historical Markers on Waymarking.com". Waymarking.com. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  3. ^ Jeffway, Bill. "From Black to Red and Back Again: Recovered Voices of an Early Rural African American Patriot and Community". academia.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2018.



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