Hillside Cemetery - Middletown NY
Posted by: nomadwillie
N 41° 26.544 W 074° 25.535
18T E 547984 N 4588028
Opened in 1861, it was designed in the rural cemetery style by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted.
Waymark Code: WMMZ3F
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2014
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There are several thousand graves, some with excellent examples of 19th-century funerary art. New York provided for the creation of rural cemeteries, which followed the model of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts by setting graves and monuments in a pastoral natural setting, in 1847. Under that act, the Hillside Cemetery Association was formed in 1860.
In 1930 the stone office building at the front entrance was built. It fell into disuse after three decades, and thus the modern garage was built in 1992
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There approxmiately 1722 internments in Hillside