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The Cemetery Belt

The Cemetery Belt

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The Queens land rush began in 1847, following the passage of the Rural Cemetery Act by the State Legislature that authorized commercial burial grounds. Cemeteries of Brooklyn and those of Queens – St. Michaels, Luthern, Calvary, Cypress Hill, Mt. Olivet and Mt. Zion – collectively, became known as The Cemetery Belt.

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The 19-century Queens community grew rapidly. Picnicking families would come on the Astoria-Yorkville ferry, which, signs on the terminal proclaimed, was the "shortest route to St. Michaels, Lutheran, Calvary, Cypress Hill, Mt. Olivet and Mt. Zion Cemeteries." Restaurants, saloons and beer gardens flourished. The cemetery is "the principal industry of the people in the vicinity," reported Munsell's 1882 History of Queens County. The Yorkville–Astoria ferry stopped in 1936 after being replaced by the Triborough Bridge.


Cemeteries in Queens

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Flushing

Elmhurst

Middle Village

Maspeth

Middle Village

Glendale

Ridgewood

Elsewhere


Brooklyn

  • Maimonides Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
  • Mount Hope Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
  • Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Cemeteries

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Year Title Printer Compiler(s) Google
Books
HathiTrust Internet
Archive
Other
1881
The Cemeteries of New York, and How to Reach Them
G.H. Burton
(George H. Burton; 1847–1915)
(printer)
Selden C. Judson
(Selden C. Judson; 1842–1920)
Library of Congress Library of Congress
1895
The Leonard Manual of the Cemeteries of New York and Vicinity
J.H. Leonard
(John Henry Leonard)
(publisher)
J.H. Leonard
(John Henry Leonard)
(compiler)
Library of Congress Library of Congress
1901
The Leonard Manual of the Cemeteries of New York and Vicinity
J.H. Leonard
(John Henry Leonard)
(publisher)
J.H. Leonard
(John Henry Leonard)
(compiler)
Library of Congress Library of Congress
1987
Permanent New Yorkers – A Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of New York
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
(publisher)
Judi Culbertson
(née Charlotte Judi Chaffee; born 1941) &
Tom Randall
(Thomas Joseph Randall; born 1945)
Sausalito Public Library.


  • Munsell (1882)

Bibliography

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Notes

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References linked to notes

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  • Richmond, John Francis (Rev.) (1871). New York and Its Institutions, 1609–1871 – The Brights Side of New York – A Library of Information, Pertaining to the Great Metropolis, Past and Present, With Historic Sketches of Its Churches, Schools, Public Buildings, Parks and Cemeteries, of Its Police, Fire, Health and Quarantine Departments, of Its Prisons, Hospitals, Homes, Asylums, Dispensaries and Morgue and All Municipal and Private Charitable Institutions. New York: E.B. Treat (Erastus Buck Treat; 1838–1928); San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft. Detroit: Randall & Fish (publishers). LCCN 01-14309
  1. Via HathiTrust (Library of Congress). 1871. Retrieved September 21, 2021.


  • Richmond, John Francis (Rev.) (1873). New York and Its Institutions, 1609–1873 – The Brights Side of New York – A Library of Information, Pertaining to the Great Metropolis, Past and Present, With Historic Sketches of Its Churches, Schools, Public Buildings, Parks and Cemeteries, of Its Police, Fire, Health and Quarantine Departments, of Its Prisons, Hospitals, Homes, Asylums, Dispensaries and Morgue and All Municipal and Private Charitable Institutions. New York: E.B. Treat (Erastus Buck Treat; 1838–1928); San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft; St. Louis: H. C. Wright; New Orleans: J. H. Hummel; Chicago: W. T. Keener (publishers).
  1. Via Google Books (Columbia University). 1873. Retrieved September 21, 2021.