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Rockville Cemetery

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Area
  
13.23 acres (5.35 ha)

NRHP Reference #
  
15000801

Built
  
1799 (1799)

Added to NRHP
  
November 16, 2015

Rockville Cemetery

Location
  
45 Merrick Road Lynbrook, New York

Rockville Cemetery and Bristol and Mexico Monument is a historic cemetery located at Lynbrook in Nassau County, New York. The cemetery started as a small local burial ground in 1799. It subsequently came to be the final resting place of many early Near Rockaway settlers. The cemetery features a monument to two nearby shipwrecks, the Bristol and the Mexico, in the winter of 1836-1837. The Bristol and Mexico Monument marks the mass grave of the 139 passengers, mostly Irish immigrants fleeing famine. The shipwrecks resulted in changes to New York Harbor approach practices.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

References

Rockville Cemetery Wikipedia