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PIONEER CEMETERY

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Cemetery
Location
66 South Main Street, Prattsburgh, NY, USA
Lat/Long
42.51896800000001, -77.28949520000003
Grant Recipient
Prattsburgh Community Historical Society
Historic Marker

PIONEER CEMETERY

Inscription

PIONEER CEMETERY
ESTABLISHED 1806 ON LAND
OWNED BY CAPT. JOEL PRATT,
REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN
& FOUNDER OF PRATTSBURGH.
BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2016

Pioneer Cemetery is an early burial ground established in 1806 on land owned by Captain Joel Pratt who founded Prattsburgh. Pratt, who is interred there, was a Revolutionary War veteran.