Gilead Cemetery
Gilead Cemetery is located in the town of Carmel, New York, United States. It is off a bend in Mechanic Street 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the hamlet of Carmel, seat of Putnam County. Some of the earliest settlers of the region are buried here. It was attached to a Congregational, and later Presbyterian meeting house built ca. 1756 and demolished in 1839. Among those buried here include Enoch Crosby, a Revolutionary War spy believed to be the model for the title character of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy, and Joel Frost, a local politician who later served in the New York State Legislature and for a single term in the House of Representatives.The headstones themselves also display an unusual range of funerary art from the first graves through the last historically significant ones, in 1929. The earliest illustrate changing Protestant notions of the role of death in the later years of the 18th century. For these reasons it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 (entry #88002684).
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Mechanic Street 28
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New York, United States
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