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St. John's Burying Ground

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St. John's Cemetery 1995
St. John's Cemetery 1995

St. John's Burying Ground was a cemetery bounded by Varick Street, Leroy Street, Hudson Street and Clarkson Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. The ground was connected with St. John's Chapel of Trinity Parish from 1834 to 1898, although many of the burials predate the cemetery's acquisition by the church. The last burials were in about 1860. It is estimated that about 10,000 people were buried there. In 1897, the cemetery was made into a public park by the city of New York. Only about 250 bodies were removed. The new park was called St. John's Park, but later became known as Hudson Park, and is now called James J. Walker Park. Tony Dapolito Outdoor Pool and Community Center and Hudson Park Library were built on the old cemetery grounds. The only remnant that remains of the park's time as a cemetery is the firemen's monument, which was erected by Engine Company 13 to Eugene Underhill and Frederick A. Ward, who were killed at a fire in 1834. The monument used to be at their grave site, but it was moved in 1898.

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St. John's Burying Ground
Saint Lukes Place, New York Manhattan

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