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Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York)

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Architect
  
Thomas, Burton A.

Address
  
Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Year built
  
1857

NRHP Reference #
  
05000166

Area
  
17 ha

Added to NRHP
  
15 March 2005

Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York)

Location
  
Church and Cornell Sts., Amsterdam, New York

Burials
  
Stephen Sanford, Mary Duncan, Amory Dwight Mayo, John Knox Stewart, Benedict Arnold, Bruce Anderson

Similar
  
Fairview Cemetery, St Mary's Cemetery, The Recorder, St Joseph's Cemetery, City of Amsterdam

Green Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York. It was established in 1858. Unitarian Minister Amory Dwight Mayo delivered the dedication address, which explained the role that cemeteries played in creating a "Christian Republic." It encompasses 14,860 individual interments marked by imposing mausolea, elaborate monuments, family plots, decorative markers, and simple stones. It includes four contributing structures: Church Street entrance gate, upper pedestrian gate and path, receiving vault, and Sanford mausoleum. Notable burials include congressman Benedict Arnold (1780-1849) and his grandson Lt. Benedict Arnold Leonard (1840-1864).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York) Wikipedia