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African-American Cemetery (Montgomery, New York)

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The site had grown neglected until the town and private donors undertook to fix it up in the early 1990s. It was fully restored and rededicated, with a new wooden fence and explanatory
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All the originally marked graves that have been identified have had the stones used to mark them supplemented with small
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National Register of Historic Places Registration: The African-American Cemetery / "Colored Cemetery
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Robert L. Williams; John A. Bonafide (January 1996).
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

NY 416
Town of Montgomery
NY
Middletown
41°30′16″N 74°15′16″W / 41.50444°N 74.25444°W / 41.50444; -74.25444
96000862
Montgomery
New York
graves
NY 416
Interstate 84
Wallkill River
pipes
inscription
plaque
National Register of Historic Places


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places Registration: The African-American Cemetery / "Colored Cemetery
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