Pioneer Cemetery (Evans, New York)

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Pioneer Cemetery, April 2012
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Location West side of N. Main St. between Gold St. & Beach Rd., Evans Center, New York
Coordinates 42°39′11″N79°02′07″W / 42.65306°N 79.03528°W / 42.65306; -79.03528 Coordinates: 42°39′11″N79°02′07″W / 42.65306°N 79.03528°W / 42.65306; -79.03528
Area less than one acre
NRHP reference #

11000997

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Added to NRHP January 4, 2011

Pioneer Cemetery, also known as Evans Center Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located at Evans Center in Erie County, New York. It consists of 10 to 11 rows of burials, with the oldest dating to 1810. The majority of the burials date between 1810 and 1860, with the most recent burial in 1928. Most are marked with simple tablet headstones. It features hilly terrain with a prominent rise at the center of the cemetery. [2]

Cemetery Place of burial

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard.

Evans Center is a hamlet in the town of Evans in Erie County, New York, United States. The Pioneer Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Erie County, New York County in the United States

Erie County is a highly populated county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 919,040. The county seat is Buffalo. The county's name comes from Lake Erie. It was named by European colonists for the regional Iroquoian language-speaking Erie tribe of Native Americans, who lived south and east of the lake before 1654.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/03/12 through 1/06/12. National Park Service. 2012-01-13.
  2. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2016-07-01.Note: This includes Virginia L. Bartos (October 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Pioneer Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-01. and Accompanying eight photographs