{"nrhp_refnum":"99000807","name":"Old Sloatsburg Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Richards Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sloatsburg","county":"Rockland County","state":"NY","lat":41.15364562350004,"lon":-74.19604351475593,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-acre cemetery off Richards Road in the center of the Village of Sloatsburg, Rockland County, New York. It began as the Sloat family burial ground in 1781 and grew in stages into a community cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is a small-scale rural example of the romantic rural cemetery movement that later took on lawn-park design features. Its four adjoining sections show how national changes in funerary landscape design and attitudes toward death played out in a rural community. It is also a settlement-era burial ground tied to the development of Sloatsburg.","narrative":"Old Sloatsburg Cemetery occupies five acres in the center of the Village of Sloatsburg, Rockland County. It began in 1781 as a family burial ground when Private John Sloat was buried on a knoll behind the family home. The first non-family burial came in 1852, and the Sloatsburg Cemetery Association formed in 1878. Four sections survive: the raised, drum-shaped Sloat plot, the Hill Section with its circular roadway and groves of conifers, early twentieth-century lawn-style expansions from 1909 and 1914, and the Waldron Section of 1929, which includes four mausolea. The cemetery holds nearly 1,200 headstones. The nomination values it as a local record of changing American cemetery design, moving from the romantic rural cemetery movement to the simpler lawn-park style. After decades of neglect, local residents cleared the grounds in 1996-97 and restored the historic plan, and they continue to maintain it.","period_of_significance":"ca.1781-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Fell into disuse and became overgrown, then was cleared in 1996-97 by local residents and civic groups, who continue to maintain it.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.399756-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000807.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000807/0ff6ea83d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000807/0ff6ea83d7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Sloatsburg_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Old_Sloatsburg_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321472","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sloatsburg_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1555415"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rockland-county/old-sloatsburg-cemetery-99000807/"}