Queens · NYC landmark
Moore-Jackson Cemetery and Community Garden
51st to 54th Streets between 31st and 32nd Avenues · Queens, New York City
Colonial family gravestones survive beside a volunteer-run community garden on the former Moore farm.
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NYFE Summary
This family burial ground once stood on the Moore farm outside the village of Newtown. Fieldstone, brownstone and marble marked the graves. After years of neglect, workers reset the surviving stones at the eastern end of the property in 1936.
Augustine Moore’s fieldstone marker is dated 1769. The cemetery now shares the site with a volunteer-run community garden. The Queens Historical Society owns the property, and local volunteers maintain it.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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