Welcome to the new Bygone Long Island Cemeteries forum. This is the place to post your photos, ask your questions and post your comments concerning anything to do with Long Islands graveyards, burial plots and cemeteries.
Welcome to the new Bygone Long Island Cemeteries forum. This is the place to post your photos, ask your questions and post your comments concerning anything to do with Long Islands graveyards, burial plots and cemeteries.
"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
Wow, so after two years, I'm the only one who's posting a question? Psh, anyway. My friend works at an office right by the Old Burying Ground & Fort Golgotha in Huntington Village and the place always attracts me. When we were walking past it the other night and point "I wanna go in there", she responds "In the cannon?". She was just being a wiseass, because I was pointing at the cannon at the entrance of the cemetery. I read up on it and tried to find some pictures, but couldn't find any. Has anyone been exploring in there, taken photos, or can give more of a history on it?
Wanna laugh... I was like when did I make a cemetery forum... Hahahaha...
The British occupied the land of the burying ground during the Revolutionary war. They transformed the place into a fort. All the headstones were pulled up and layed out to form a baracade they could fight from. After the war, the locals / town put the stones back and cleaned the place up. It is one of the older cemetaries around....
"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
Lol, I just think it's so beautiful from the outside. Might go in one day and take photos...
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