Rockville Cemetery
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rockville-cemetery-248-11615537
title:
Rockville Cemetery
text:
Rockville Cemetery and Bristol and Mexico Monument is a historic cemetery located at Lynbrook in Nassau County, New York. The cemetery started as a small local burial ground in 1799. It subsequently came to be the final resting place of many early Near Rockaway settlers. The cemetery features a monument to two nearby shipwrecks, the Bristol and the Mexico, in the winter of 1836–1837. The Bristol and Mexico Monument marks the mass grave of the 139 passengers, mostly Irish immigrants fleeing famin
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Historic cemetery in New York, United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville_Cemetery
date created:
date modified:
2023-06-26T05:58:51Z
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fields total:
13
integrity:
15