Dale Cemetery Explained

Dale Cemetery
Established:1851
Country:United States
Location:Ossining, NY
Coordinates:41.171°N -73.8561°W
Owner:Town of Ossining
Size:47acres
Findagraveid:64321

The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York, is a town-owned rural cemetery encompassing and has been operational since October 1851. In 2013 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

Description

The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York, is a town-owned cemetery encompassing 47acres.[2] The cemetery was originally owned by the Dale Cemetery Association which was incorporated on 16 January 1851 and was dedicated in October 1851.[3] It was designed by Howard Daniels.[4] At its dedication Professor C. Mason said, that we build cemeteries "for the use, the pleasure, the instruction, the edification of the living."[5] Its first President was Aaron Ward, retired congressman.[6] The cemetery was acquired by the Town of Ossining in 2004.[7]

Notable interments

See also

References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places listings for July 26, 2013. U.S. National Park Service. July 26, 2013. July 26, 2013.
  2. Book: French, John Homer . Gazetteer of the State of New York . Place, Frank . R. Pearsall Smith . New York. 704. dale cemetery sing. . 1860 .
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=_4kvAAAAYAAJ&dq=dale+cemetery+address+1851&pg=PA5 The Dale Cemetery, (at Claremont, Near Sing-Sing,)
  4. Book: Linden . Blanche M.G. . Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery . 2007 . University of Massachusetts Press . Cambridge. 978-1-55849-571-5 . 294 . 5 August 2019.
  5. Alfred L. Brophy, "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
  6. Book: Ward, George Kemp. Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597–1910. A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing. New York. 1910. 245. dale cemetery ossining.. 9 June 2009.
  7. Web site: About Historic Dale Cemetery . 2009-04-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091010000307/http://dalecemetery.com/about.htm . 2009-10-10 .