{"nrhp_refnum":"04000822","name":"Revolutionary War Cemetery","other_names":["Old Salem Burying Ground"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"9 Archibald St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salem","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.16717397000008,"lon":-73.32924227099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Exploration/Settlement","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic burial ground, also called Old Salem Burying Ground, on a 2.6-acre flat parcel at 9 Archibald Street in the village of Salem, Washington County, New York. It was founded around 1767 and is enclosed by a slate wall built c. 1870.","why_significant":"It is the oldest cemetery in Salem and holds the graves of the town's earliest settlers, including 105 Revolutionary War soldiers, the largest number in the county. Its gravestones and slate family vaults are fine examples of 18th- and 19th-century funerary art, including 36 stones attributed to carver Zerubbabel Collins. The cemetery retains a high level of integrity in its size, setting, features and carved stones.","narrative":"Founded around 1767, this burial ground on Archibald Street in Salem, New York, is the village's oldest cemetery. It covers 2.6 acres and is surrounded by a slate wall dating to about 1870, with a slate stepping stile and wrought iron gates. More than 1,000 burials are known, with 1,098 gravestones counted so far. They include the graves of early settlers and 105 Revolutionary War soldiers, the most in Washington County, along with soldiers of the War of 1812 and the French and Indian War. The cemetery is notable for its carved marble tablet stones, 36 of them attributed to Zerubbabel Collins, and for ten sod-covered slate family vaults built in a Roman arch style. A marble obelisk placed in 1933 honors the Revolutionary War soldiers buried here. The site keeps its original size, setting and funerary art largely intact, which is the basis for its recognition for settlement, community development, funerary art and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1767-1933","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a cemetery; the last burial was in 1923 and a survey of gravestones is ongoing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.214048-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000822.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000822/44492b0354-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000822/44492b0354-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revolutionary_War_Cemetery,_Salem,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revolutionary_War_Cemetery,_Salem,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322861","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_War_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q543143"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/revolutionary-war-cemetery-04000822/"}