Colonial Acres Cemetery
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Colonial Acres Cemetery

Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA

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  • Get directions Colonial Road at Continental Road
    Scarsdale, New York 10583 United States
    Coordinates: 40.97507, -73.76172
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Brown, Scarsdale supervisor in 1829, set aside the land for the cemetery under the terms of his 1840 will. When Brown died in 1844 he was interred here and the cemetery was enclosed. Brown's wife Anna is interred here as are representatives of the Merritt, Cornell, Morell, Griffen, and Purdy families, also of prominence and long standing in the community. The simplicity of the markers and character of the cemetery are illustrative of his important aspect of life in a Westchester village in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Description 1.3-acre site, set aside and enclosed by a perimeter walls in 1844. Incorporates approximately 21 nineteenth-century graves. Headstones, of granite, marble or sandstone, are extremely simple, many marked only with a name and date of death. Located on land once part of the farm of Nathaniel Brown, the cemetery, now owned by the Village of Scarsdale, is separated from the extant c. 1800 Brown House by a mid-twentieth century housing development.

Also known as the Griffen-Cornell Burial Ground.



Brown, Scarsdale supervisor in 1829, set aside the land for the cemetery under the terms of his 1840 will. When Brown died in 1844 he was interred here and the cemetery was enclosed. Brown's wife Anna is interred here as are representatives of the Merritt, Cornell, Morell, Griffen, and Purdy families, also of prominence and long standing in the community. The simplicity of the markers and character of the cemetery are illustrative of his important aspect of life in a Westchester village in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Description 1.3-acre site, set aside and enclosed by a perimeter walls in 1844. Incorporates approximately 21 nineteenth-century graves. Headstones, of granite, marble or sandstone, are extremely simple, many marked only with a name and date of death. Located on land once part of the farm of Nathaniel Brown, the cemetery, now owned by the Village of Scarsdale, is separated from the extant c. 1800 Brown House by a mid-twentieth century housing development.

Also known as the Griffen-Cornell Burial Ground.



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  • Added: 12 Jan 2014
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2526500