Houston Street Cemetery
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Houston Street Cemetery

New York, New York County, New York, USA

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  • Get directions The Bowery Historic District
    New York, New York, USA
    Coordinates: 40.72342, -73.99192
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In 1825, the Society of Friends (Quakers) purchased land at the southeast corner of North (Houston) and the Bowery to serve as their new burial ground outside of town. Quaker burials continued here until 1849, after which the cemetery was removed. So many bodies were buried one on top of another—the Friends did not use grave markers for these early burials—that it became hard to distinguish burials when the remains were disinterred and reburied at the Westbury Meeting House at Jericho, Long Island.87 Some fragments of human bone were unearthed during recent (2003) archaeological investigations. These bones and other artifacts were deemed insignificant, and the site was reburied under the current Avalon Chrystie development, part of the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Area.88 (Source: National Register of Historic Places). 87 Wood 1904: 22-23. 88 Heaton, Patrick and Joel I. Klein. August 2003. Archaeological Investigations Block 427, lot 30 within the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Area, New York, NY. Prepared by John Milner Associates for Avalon Bay Communities.
In 1825, the Society of Friends (Quakers) purchased land at the southeast corner of North (Houston) and the Bowery to serve as their new burial ground outside of town. Quaker burials continued here until 1849, after which the cemetery was removed. So many bodies were buried one on top of another—the Friends did not use grave markers for these early burials—that it became hard to distinguish burials when the remains were disinterred and reburied at the Westbury Meeting House at Jericho, Long Island.87 Some fragments of human bone were unearthed during recent (2003) archaeological investigations. These bones and other artifacts were deemed insignificant, and the site was reburied under the current Avalon Chrystie development, part of the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Area.88 (Source: National Register of Historic Places). 87 Wood 1904: 22-23. 88 Heaton, Patrick and Joel I. Klein. August 2003. Archaeological Investigations Block 427, lot 30 within the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Area, New York, NY. Prepared by John Milner Associates for Avalon Bay Communities.

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  • Added: 19 Nov 2012
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2473782