Maple Avenue Cemetery

Maple Avenue Cemetery (HMGGO)

Location: Patterson, NY 12563 Putnam County
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N 41° 30.842', W 73° 36.738'

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Patterson 200 Years

Maple Avenue Cemetery
(And Combined Church Cemeteries)
Earliest Recorded Grave, 1792

The Combined Cemeteries
At the close of the Revolution, in 1782, when all the lands of Beverly Robinson were seized by the State Legislature and sold at auction, a half-acre parcel on the road from New England to the Hudson in the town of Fredericksburgh was reserved for the Episcopal Church and a burying ground. A portion of this piece of land was the start of the combined cemeteries which are here today. The earliest recorded grave here is that of Thomas Flemming who died in 1792.

In 1803, a committee from Christ Church was appointed to confer with the Presbyterian Society about the burying ground which that congregation had located eight years earlier, along with their new meeting house, on adjoining land. Revolutionary War veterans, including Henry Ludington (who died in 1817), his daughter Sybil and other early members of both congregations are buried in the combined churchyards. Some, like the Rev. David Close who died in 1783 and was originally buried in the Old Meeting House cemetery (north of the Triangle Inn Corner) were relocated here. The rear portion of the Old Presbyterian Cemetery did not come into use until 1849, after the demolition of the 1795 Meeting House and the construction of the present Presbyterian Church building in 1838.

As the church cemeteries filled up, the Maple Avenue Cemetery Association was formed. In 1863 the trustees bought land along Maple Avenue just north of and adjacent to them. The first sections were divided into family plots and include some Civil War graves. The names on the stones in these plots have a familiar ring to them, occurring often in street and place names within the Town, in the records of the churches and organizations, and on the War Monument at the corner of Maple Avenue. Since the initial portions of this cemetery were laid out, additional development has continued to the east and the north.

One of the best views of the proposed Historic District can be seen from the east of the Maple Avenue gate looking south over the original church lands. The scale and feeling of serenity suggests how this part of Patterson might have looked 100 years ago.
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Date Added Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at 11:55am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 615797 N 4596751
Decimal Degrees41.51403333, -73.61230000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 41° 30.842', W 73° 36.738'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds41° 30' 50.52" N, 73° 36' 44.28" W
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Area Code(s)845, 203
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 30 Maple Ave, Patterson NY 12563, US
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