Pleasant Lawn Cemetery

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Pleasant Lawn Cemetery
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Location NY 69A, Parish, New York
Coordinates 43°24′8″N76°8′31″W / 43.40222°N 76.14194°W / 43.40222; -76.14194 Coordinates: 43°24′8″N76°8′31″W / 43.40222°N 76.14194°W / 43.40222; -76.14194
Area 11.5 acres (4.7 ha)
Architect Granger, Merton Elwood
Architectural style Gothic Revival
NRHP reference # 05001125 [1]
Added to NRHP October 5, 2005

Pleasant Lawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Parish in Oswego County, New York. It was first used as a burial ground in 1814 and formally incorporated in 1871. Within the boundaries of this contributing site are three contributing buildings; a 19th-century receiving vault, the Mills-Petrie Mausoleum of 1899, and the Mills-Petrie Chapel of 1917. The earliest gravestones date from 1825. [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.

Parish (village), New York Village in New York, United States

Parish is a village located in the town of Parish, in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 450 as of the census of 2010.

Oswego County, New York County in the United States

Oswego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 122,109. The county seat is Oswego. The county name is from a Mohawk language word meaning "the outpouring", referring to the mouth of the Oswego River.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]

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

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