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Old Gravesend Cemetery

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NRHP Reference #
  
80002635

Area
  
6,500 m²

Added to NRHP
  
17 September 1980

Address
  
Brooklyn, NY 11223, USA

Year built
  
1658

Old Gravesend Cemetery

Location
  
Gravesend Neck Rd. and McDonald Ave., New York, New York

Similar
  
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Brooklyn s old gravesend cemetery


Old Gravesend Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Gravesend Neck Road and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The cemetery was founded about 1658 and contains the graves of a number of the original patentees and their families. Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend, is believed to be buried in the cemetery.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Old Gravesend Cemetery Wikipedia