Historic Burial Places
Nassau
Youngs Memorial Cemetery (1658), Cove Road, Oyster Bay. Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president (1858-1919)
Fort Hill Burying Ground (1668), Simcoe Street, Oyster Bay. John Townsend, early Quaker settler (died 1668); Robert Townsend, Revolutionary War spy ring leader (1753-1838).
Floyd-Jones Cemetery (1713), Merrick Road (behind Old Grace Church), Massapequa. Maj. Thomas Jones, namesake of Jones Beach (died 1713).
Jones Cemetery (1775), Merrick Road, Massapequa. Samuel Jones Esq. (1734-1818), delegate to New York Constitutional Convention, 1788; wrote New York State laws.
Montfort Cemetery (1736), Montfort Road, Port Washington. Hendrick Onderdonck (1724-1809), built nation's first paper mill in Roslyn, hosted President George Washington in 1790.
Searing-Roslyn United Methodist Churchyard (circa 1750), 134 I.U. Willets Rd., Albertson. Searing family graves.
Jericho Friends Meeting House Graveyard (1787), Old Jericho Turnpike. Elias Hicks, noted Quaker preacher (1748-1830).
Holy Rood Cemetery, (1851), Old Country Road, Westbury. CIA director William Casey (1913-1987); Margaret (Molly) Brown (1867-1932), survivor of the Titanic sinking and subject of the musical and film ``The Unsinkable Molly Brown.''
St. John's Memorial Cemetery (1859), Route 25A, Laurel Hollow, Cold Spring Harbor. Secretary of war Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950); philanthropist Otto Herman Kahn (1867-1934); General Motors chairman Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (1875-1966); CBS president William F. Paley (1901-1951).
Roslyn Cemetery (1860), Route 25A, Greenvale. Editor-poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878); authors Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) and Christopher Morley (1890-1957). The 1914 East Gate Toll House, which served as toll station for the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, is located inside the cemetery.
Beth David Cemetery (1917), Elmont Road, Elmont. Comedians Sam Levenson (1911-1980) and Andy Kaufman (1949-1984).
Suffolk
Old Burying Ground (1640), Route 25, Southold. Rev. John Youngs (died 1672), leader of first Puritan settlement.
Old Burying Ground (1649), Little Plains Road, Southampton. Graves of settlers.
Presbyterian Church of Setauket Churchyard (1669), Main Street, Setauket. Patriot spy ring leader Abraham Woodhull (1750-1826); painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868).
Smith Burial Grounds (circa 1680), Moriches Road, Nissequogue. Richard (Bull) Smith, founder of Smithtown (1613-1692).
Old East Hampton Cemetery (1696), Main Street. New York State Sen. David Gardiner (1784-1844); Lion Gardiner, first settler of Gardiners Island (1599-1663); artists Thomas Moran (1837-1926) and Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899); John Alexander Tyler (1848-1883), son of President John Tyler and Julia Gardiner Tyler.
Old Burying Ground (1703), Main Street, Huntington. British built Fort Golgotha on this site during Revolutionary War.
Old Burying Ground (1717), Route 25 (Main Road), Cutchogue. Graves of early settlers.
Quaker Cemetery (1740), Route 114, Shelter Island. Nathaniel Sylvester (1610-1680), first settler and owner of Shelter Island.
St. John's Episcopal Churchyard (1765), Montauk Highway, Oakdale. Revolutionary War soldiers, American Indians and slaves (gravestones marked with ``M'' for male, ``F'' for female.)
Tuthill Slave Cemetery (1830s), King Street and Narrow River Road, Orient. Dr. Seth Tuthill (1784-1850); his wife, Maria (died 1840), and many slaves with unmarked stones. Marker notes the Tuthills' wish to ''be buried with their former servants.''
St. James Episcopal Churchyard (1853), 490 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. Architect Stanford White (1853-1906).
Southampton Cemetery (incorporated 1885; some graves are older), County Road 39. Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey (1895-1983).
Pinelawn Memorial Park (1902), Pinelawn Road and Wellwood Avenue, Farmingdale. Musicians John Coltrane (1926-1967), Count Basie (1904-1984) and Guy Lombardo (1902-1977); ballet artist Andre Eglevsky (1917-1977); NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins (1901-1981).
Green River Cemetery (1870s), Accabonac Road, East Hampton. Artists Jackson Pollack (1912-1956), his wife Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) and Stuart Davis (1894-1964); writer A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) and wife, Pulitzer Prize winner Jean Stafford Liebling (1915-1979).
Sacred Heart Cemetery (1903), County Road 39, Southampton. Gary Cooper (1901-1961).
Pinelawn National Cemetery (1936), 2040 Wellwood Ave., Farmingdale; 315,000 veterans and spouses, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II; Vietnam War.
Queens
Prospect Cemetery (1640), Beaver Road off Jamaica Avenue. One of Long Island's oldest cemeteries.
Friends Meeting House Graveyard (1694), 137-16 Northern Blvd., Flushing. John Bowne, pioneer for religious freedom (1627-1695).
Grace Church Graveyard (1730), 155-24 90th Ave., Jamaica. Sen. Rufus King, delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1755-1827); New York State Gov. John King (1788-1867).
Remsen Graveyard (1790), Alderton Street, Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills. Jeromus Remsen, French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars veteran (1735-1790).
Lawrence Graveyard (1832), 216th Street and 42nd Avenue, Bayside. New York City Mayor Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence (1791-1861); New York Stock Exchange director Frederick Newbold Lawrence (1834-1916).
Calvary Cemetery (1848), Laurel Hill Boulevard, Woodside. Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838); New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944); Sen. Robert F. Wagner (1877-1953).
Cypress Hills Cemetery (1848), 833 Jamaica Avenue. Actress Mae West (1892-1980); Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919-1972); heavyweight champion ``Gentleman Jim'' Corbett (1866-1933); Woodhaven founder John R. Pitkin (1798-1874).
Cemetery of the Evergreens (1849), Bushwick Avenue and Conway Street, Glendale. Dancer Bill (Bojangles) Robinson (1878-1949). Also in this cemetery are the remains of many victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, along with a monument to the tragedy; 5,000 indigent seamen from 28 nations, with a marble monument with a globe placed in 1853; and 800 actors, along with the Actors Fund Memorial, a tall spire dating to 1887.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery (1864), within Cypress Hills Cemetery, 635 Jamaica Ave.; 21,000 veterans and spouses from war of 1812 to World War II. Includes Civil War leaders Brig. Gen. William Gates of New York Third U.S. Artillery, died 1868, and Brig. Gen. Thomas Egan of New York Volunteers, died 1887.
Mount Zion Cemetery (1893), 59-63 54 Ave., Maspeth. Lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943); Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims and monument.
Flushing Cemetery (1853),163-06 46th Ave. Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (1900-1970); Queens College founder Charles Colden (1885-1960); pianist Hazel Scott (1920-1981); financier Bernard Baruch (1870-1965).
Beth El (1864), 80-12 Cypress Hills St., Glendale. Actor Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973); champion chess player Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941).
Machpelah Cemetery (1870s), 82-30 Cypress Hills St., Glendale. Magicianescape artist Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss, 1874-1926).
St. John's Cemetery (1880), 80-01 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village. Msgr. Joseph McLaughlin (1879-1960); Msgr. John Nummey (1879-1980); gangsters Vito Genovese (1897-1969), Charles (Lucky) Luciano (1897-1962).
Mount Carmel Cemetery (1904), Cypress Hills Street, Cypress Hills. Writer Sholom Aleichem (1869-1916).
Beth Olom (1866), Cypress Hills Street, Glendale. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938); poet Emma Lazarus, author of the Statue of Liberty inscription (1849-1887); first Jewish admiral, Uriah Phelps Levy (1792-1862).
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