EARLY CEMETERY
- Program
- Subject
- Location
- Lat/Long
- Grant Recipient
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NYS Historic
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Cemetery
- 114-116 E. Main Street, Afton, NY
- 42.2258, -75.5186
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Afton Historical Society
EARLY CEMETERY
Inscription
EARLY CEMETERYESTABLISHED IN 1818 AS THE
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH BURYING
GROUND AND NOW CALLED EAST
SIDE CEMETERY. MANY EARLY
SETTLERS BURIED HERE.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018
The Universalist Church and burial ground were established in 1819 in the Town of Bainbridge, now Afton, on land sold to them by Horace and Rebecca Stone. In 1924, the land was transferred to the East Side Cemetery Association.
