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Harbor Cemetery [Institutional, Seamen, 1834-1976]
Tidbits from the Article in Ancestry
Daily News by Ancestry.com on 08 May 2000: "Prospect Avenue and
Caldera Place, Livingston, Staten Island ~ Created in
1801 by the will of Captain Robert Richard Randall as a
"home for retired, native-born sailors who served at
least five years aboard a vessel flying the American flag."
The Staten Island site opened in 1833 with twenty sailors.
It later housed as many as 1,000 retirees at a time. In
1976, Sailors Snug Harbor closed its Staten Island
facility, sold the property to the City of New York, and
reopened its doors in North Carolina. It retained
ownership of the cemetery, and the older gravestones were
put into storage. The Snug Harbor Cultural Center
currently occupies the remaining property. It is home to
the Staten Island Botanical Garden, the Staten Island
Childrens Museum, and independent arts
organizations: Sailors Snug Harbor, P.O. Box 150,
Sealevel, North Carolina, 28577-0150, (252) 225-4411
Records: Sailors Snug Harbor maintains the
cemetery records and will search them upon request.
Researchers should also check the Staten Island RootsWeb
page on the Internet to see if this cemetery has been
added to its cemetery database.
Resources: Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of
Staten Island (FACSI) has a blueprint of the cemetery.
The graves are numbered; the blueprint shows the location
of the number. FACSI can be reached at 140 Tysen Street,
Staten Island, NY 10301-1120. Lane, Doris. 'By Will of a
Sea Captain: Sailors Snug Harbor Cemetery,' 'The
FACSI Newsletter,' vol. 15, issue 3 (Fall 1998). (history
of cemetery; profile of David Jeremiah Hubbard)"
- Mil-Sts-NC ~ Link
- 48th North Carolina Infantry
- Mil-Sts-NC-Salisbury ~ Link
- Salisbury [Rowan County] Civil War Confederate Prison
& National Cemetery
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