{"nrhp_refnum":"99000753","name":"Stony Hill Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Buckout Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrison","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.05506554200008,"lon":-73.74938003099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six and one-half acre African-American burial ground on Buckout Road in the Silver Lake section of Harrison, Westchester County, New York, with the site of a church foundation inside its boundaries. It served The Hills, a free Black community founded around 1800.","why_significant":"The cemetery is argued to be a large, intact example of a rural nineteenth-century African-American burial ground in Westchester County. It holds the graves of Black Civil War veterans and the church foundation, the most visible remnant of The Hills. It also has potential to yield information about the community's people and customs.","narrative":"Stony Hill Cemetery is a six and one-half acre burial ground on Buckout Road in Harrison, New York, set in hilly, wooded land bounded by Wolf Swamp Brook and low fieldstone walls. It served The Hills, a free Black community established around 1800 by people freed from slavery by local Quakers. Most graves run east to west and are marked only by plain fieldstones, with roughly 200 sites possibly identifiable. Seven carved stones survive, four of them government-issued markers for Civil War veterans. Inside the grounds lie the stone foundation of a community church, also possibly used as a school, which was demolished before 1930. The Hills was the largest concentration of African-Americans in Westchester County through 1870, and at least 32 of its men served in the Union army. The site was listed for its ethnic heritage importance, its intact condition, and its potential to yield information about the community's people and burial customs.","period_of_significance":"c. 1800-c. 1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","D"],"status_note":"Cemetery remains in use as a burial ground and is owned by a church; the church building was demolished prior to 1930 and only its stone foundation remains. The form states the site is wooded and well preserved.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.82347-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000753.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000753/e9200a6043-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000753/e9200a6043-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarrisonNY_StonyHillCemetery2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</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:HarrisonNY_StonyHillCemetery2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323257","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Hill_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7619559"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/stony-hill-cemetery-99000753/"}