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State Street Burying Ground

Also known as City Cemetery #1 , New Albany City Cemetery #1 , New Albany First Cemetery

New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, USA

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  • Get directions 100-198 W. Oak Street
    New Albany, Indiana 47150 United States
    Coordinates: 38.28765, -85.82567
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This cemetery was established in 1809 as the first cemetery In New Albany. It no longer exists. The southern boundary of the cemetery was the south side of Elm Street with the bluff bank of Falling Run Creek as its northern boundary. Its western boundary was West First Street with an eastern boundary about 100 feet short of State Street. This places the middle of the cemetery in the middle of the 100 block of West Oak Street. After Fairview Cemetery was established in 1841, all of the bodies were ordered to be removed from this cemetery and reburied in Fairview Cemetery. The work continued until 1852, at which time all bodies were thought to be removed. However, human remains were discovered during later excavations for sewers at West First and Elm streets.



Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as City Cemetery #1 with an alternate name of State Street Cemetery.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-22-87 (City / State Street Burying Ground) and CR-22-130 (First Cemetery) and CR-22-150 (New Albany First).

The cemetery is identified as cemetery number 90 (N. Albany First Cem 1809-53) in "The Indiana Southern Counties Collection: Floyd County Cemeteries", Southern Indiana Genealogical Society (c) 1982.



This cemetery was established in 1809 as the first cemetery In New Albany. It no longer exists. The southern boundary of the cemetery was the south side of Elm Street with the bluff bank of Falling Run Creek as its northern boundary. Its western boundary was West First Street with an eastern boundary about 100 feet short of State Street. This places the middle of the cemetery in the middle of the 100 block of West Oak Street. After Fairview Cemetery was established in 1841, all of the bodies were ordered to be removed from this cemetery and reburied in Fairview Cemetery. The work continued until 1852, at which time all bodies were thought to be removed. However, human remains were discovered during later excavations for sewers at West First and Elm streets.



Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as City Cemetery #1 with an alternate name of State Street Cemetery.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-22-87 (City / State Street Burying Ground) and CR-22-130 (First Cemetery) and CR-22-150 (New Albany First).

The cemetery is identified as cemetery number 90 (N. Albany First Cem 1809-53) in "The Indiana Southern Counties Collection: Floyd County Cemeteries", Southern Indiana Genealogical Society (c) 1982.



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  • Added: 10 Nov 2013
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2519493