Willard Asylum Cemetery
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Willard Asylum Cemetery

Also known as Old Jewish Cemetery , Willard Cemetery

Willard, Seneca County, New York, USA

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    Coordinates: 42.68272, -76.88044
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Willard -- A hamlet in the southwest corner, on the shore of Seneca Lake and County Road 132. Willard Drug Treatment Center -- A former state mental hospital that was taken over by the state prison system.
Willard Drug Treatment Center is a specialized state prison in Seneca County, New York, USA. The prison focuses on treatment of drug-addicted convicts. Willard Drug Treatment Center is located in Willard, a community in the Town of Romulus, and is adjacent to Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes District.
A former state mental hospital Founded by Dr. Sylvester D. Willard of Albany, New York, was the Secretary of the State Medical Society. In 1864 Dr. Willard was authorized by the legislature to investigate the condition of the insane poor. He submitted his report in 1865 which resulted in the creation of an asylum. Since Dr. Willard died that same year, they named the asylum after him.
there where in 1896 38 known Civil War Veterans buried there, as well as former inmates of the asylum. This Cemetery is inactive and maintain by the hamlet of Willard


Willard -- A hamlet in the southwest corner, on the shore of Seneca Lake and County Road 132. Willard Drug Treatment Center -- A former state mental hospital that was taken over by the state prison system.
Willard Drug Treatment Center is a specialized state prison in Seneca County, New York, USA. The prison focuses on treatment of drug-addicted convicts. Willard Drug Treatment Center is located in Willard, a community in the Town of Romulus, and is adjacent to Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes District.
A former state mental hospital Founded by Dr. Sylvester D. Willard of Albany, New York, was the Secretary of the State Medical Society. In 1864 Dr. Willard was authorized by the legislature to investigate the condition of the insane poor. He submitted his report in 1865 which resulted in the creation of an asylum. Since Dr. Willard died that same year, they named the asylum after him.
there where in 1896 38 known Civil War Veterans buried there, as well as former inmates of the asylum. This Cemetery is inactive and maintain by the hamlet of Willard


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  • Added: 7 Jan 2008
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2244984