{"nrhp_refnum":"12000256","name":"Wright Settlement Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Cemetery Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wright Settlement","county":"Oneida County","state":"NY","lat":43.25108735600003,"lon":-75.40759708099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Exploration/Settlement","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An 8.7-acre active burial ground on Cemetery Road in Wright Settlement, part of Rome, Oneida County, New York, in use since about 1806. It includes a c1870 chapel and a c1870 carriage house.","why_significant":"The cemetery is the only surviving physical resource with historic integrity that records the settlement and development of Wright Settlement, most of which was razed in 1941 for the Rome Air Depot. Its more than 3,000 stones document family origins, ethnicity and religion, including the area's large Welsh immigrant community. It also shows changing gravestone styles and funerary art, notably an unusual number of zinc \"White Bronze\" monuments, and some influence of the rural cemetery movement.","narrative":"Wright Settlement Cemetery occupies 8.7 acres along Cemetery Road in the Wright Settlement area of Rome, Oneida County. The earliest dated stone is from 1806, and burials continue today. Roughly 3,000 markers range from plain uncut stones to large ornate family plots, arranged mostly by family rather than by period. A c1870 frame chapel with pointed-arch windows and a slate fish-scale roof stands on the grounds, along with a c1870 board-clad carriage house. The cemetery matters because the community around it was largely erased in 1941, when the Army Air Force took 2,500 acres for the Rome Air Depot. The burial ground is the one remaining resource with historic integrity that records the settlers, their origins, marriages and beliefs. It holds a notable group of zinc monuments made by the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, plus Welsh inscriptions reflecting the area's large Welsh immigrant population.","period_of_significance":"1806-1962","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"No Style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The cemetery is still in use for burials, except the unmarked paupers plot, and the chapel and carriage house are contributing buildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.870866-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000256.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000256/cc0f6ff61a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000256/cc0f6ff61a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Imnar13","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wright_Settlement_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Imnar13</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wright_Settlement_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320289","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Settlement_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22026348"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oneida-county/wright-settlement-cemetery-12000256/"}