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Once known as "Pauper Burial Ground", "Colored Cemetery of Flushing" and "Martins Field", it was purchased by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation on December 2, 1914, and renamed in 2009 to "The Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground". [2] [3] It is co-located with a children's playground called "Martin’s Field". [2]
Interstate 278 (I-278) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in New Jersey and New York in the United States. The road runs 35.62 miles (57.32 km) from US Route 1/9 (US 1/9) in Linden, New Jersey, northeast to the Bruckner Interchange in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Mokom Sholom Cemetery: Queens: Ozone Park: 1864 No — [1] Old Montefiore Cemetery: Queens: Springfield Gardens: 1908 No Yes [8] Mount Carmel Cemetery: Queens: Glendale: 1906 No Yes [9] Mount Hebron Cemetery: Queens: Flushing: 1909 No Yes [10] [11] Mount Hope Cemetery: Brooklyn: Cypress Hills: 1881 No — Mount Judah Cemetery: Queens: Ridgewood ...
Mary, Queen of the Apostles Parish Immaculate Conception Church, 15 Hawthorne Blvd, Salem Founded in 1825, church dedicated in 1857. It is the oldest parish church in the archdiocese [92] [93] [94] Mary, Queen of Peace Parish St. Francis of Assisi Church, 441 Fellsway West, Medford: Founded in 1921. Now part of Mary, Queen of Peace [95]
The Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery has a historic section with the graves of several American Revolutionary War veterans, including John Honeyman and James Linn. The earliest known burial is dated 1740. [3] [4] The Ten Eyck House was built about 1890 and features vernacular Queen Anne style. The Lamington Black Cemetery was established ...
The Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House was built in 1694 as a small frame structure on land acquired in 1692 by John Bowne and John Rodman in Flushing, New York. The first recorded meeting held there was on November 24, 1694. This original structure is now the easterly third of the current structure, which was expanded 1716-1719. [4]
The cemetery's floral and arboreal beauty have become a memorial to Flushing's status as a center of horticulture to this day. [2] During the year of 1853 in which the Flushing Cemetery was founded, the population of Queens County was around 20,000. The land the original site for Flushing Cemetery would rest was the 20-acre John Purchase farm ...
St. George's was organized in 1702 as a mission of the Church of England by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.The group consisted of the Rev. George Keith, the Rev. John Talbot, and the Rev. Patrick Gordon, who was sent to be the missionary to Jamaica, Queens.