Cherry Lane Cemetery
Cherry Lane Cemetery was a 19th-century burial ground located in the Westerleigh section of Staten Island, New York. Established by members of the Second Asbury African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the cemetery was the final resting place of free and formerly enslaved black Staten Islanders until the 1950s, when the land was redeveloped into a Shell station, and then in the 1980s as a shopping plaza. Although the cemetery was never formally registered under the name "Cherry Lane," that designation has been adopted in modern historical and media accounts. In the 2020s, the site became the focus of descendant-led preservation efforts and scholarly research, leading to the 2023 co-naming of "Benjamin Prine Way" after the most renowned of the interred, and a 2024 dedication of a memorial garden on the former burial ground.
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Forest Avenue, New York Staten Island
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Forest Avenue 1450
10302 New York, Staten Island
New York, United States
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