{"nrhp_refnum":"07000754","name":"Pioneer Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sidney","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.31634568000004,"lon":-75.39379214499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pioneer Cemetery is a small, less than one acre burial ground on the west side of Main Street in the village of Sidney, Delaware County, New York. It was Sidney's first cemetery, with burials from 1787 to 1890.","why_significant":"The cemetery documents the settlement and early growth of Sidney, and is the resting place of nearly all of the village's settlement families and nine Revolutionary War veterans. It is also significant in art for its many finely carved gravestones, including work by well-known regional carvers such as J.W. Stewart, Joseph Crandall and Asa Baldwin.","narrative":"Pioneer Cemetery, on Main Street beside the Susquehanna River in Sidney, New York, was the village's first burial ground and served all residents regardless of denomination until the late nineteenth century. The first recorded burial dates to 1787 and the last to 1890. Of roughly 275 recorded burials, 241 markers survive, arranged in thirteen rows within a rectangular plot. A 1935 bridge project took several acres and required moving some graves, and bluestone gateposts were added in 1937. The cemetery holds the graves of most of the village's settlement families, including the Johnston, Smith, Avery, Hovey, Rogers and Baxter families, and nine Revolutionary War veterans. Many marble and slate stones carry willow, urn and foliate motifs, and several are attributed to regional carvers such as Jonas W. Stewart, known as the coffin man, Joseph Crandall and Asa Baldwin. It was listed for its role in documenting early settlement and for the artistic quality of its carved markers.","period_of_significance":"1787-1890","architect_builder":"J.W. Stewart, Joseph Crandall, Asa Baldwin, stone carvers","architectural_style":"no style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the town of Sidney; entrance gateposts were built in 1937 and part of the cemetery was lost to a 1935 bridge approach. The last burial took place in 1890.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.240332-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07000754.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000754/b2b8039e76-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000754/b2b8039e76-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renee2k","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pioneer_monuments.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renee2k</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:Pioneer_monuments.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317255","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Cemetery_(Sidney,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7196658"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/pioneer-cemetery-07000754/"}