Audubon Park Historic District

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Trinity Cemetery

An illustration from The Hudson, Benson J Lossing: 1866*

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*In the forward to The Hudson, Lossing notes that he traveled the route and made his sketches in 1860 and 1861.

Detail of carriage

Trinity Cemetery is much the largest and most generally used of those that remain on the island... This was far out of town in 1846, when the enterprise was started, but it is already approached by City improvements, and it is only a question of time when it will be abandoned.        New York Times

March 30, 1866

The Manhattanville line of Stages leaves the corner of Chatham Street and Tyron Row every half hour for the cemetery, and by an arrangement with the proprieter, Mr. Moore, passengers are taken to the Cemetery for 18 3/4 cents.

From a contemporary

pamphlet quoted in

Churchyards of Trinity Parish

1948 & 1955