National Register of Historic Places

African-American Cemetery, The

Montgomery, Orange County, New York
Listed
August 15, 1996
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
96000862

About this property

The African-American Cemetery, known historically as the Colored Cemetery, in the town of Montgomery, New York, United States, holds the graves of roughly 100 humans. It is located on NY 416 one-tenth of a mile (160 m) north of the Interstate 84 crossing, near the Wallkill River. All the originally marked graves that have been identified have had the stones used to mark them supplemented with small pipes. Only two have any kind of discernible inscription, one of which dates its occupant's passing to 1756. The site had grown neglected until the town and private donors undertook to fix it up in the early 1990s. It was fully restored and rededicated, with a new wooden fence and explanatory plaque, in 1995. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Location

Montgomery, Orange County, New York
41.50459, -74.25430

Categories

HISTORIC - NON-ABORIGINALSOCIAL HISTORYEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENTBLACK
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African-American Cemetery, The was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1996.

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