Copies of our new map are available outside the cemetery office, at 3 Mill Road and, summer 2022, at a new kiosk at the back of Grasmere Cemetery, 55 Mill Road. A digital version of the map can be found here:
Below you'll find more information on all the notable burials and highlighted features included on the map. Be sure to click on the hyperlinks to access GPS coordinates and grave photos to help guide you along.
For more history on the cemetery's evolution, click on the history tab above.
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Below you'll find more information on all the notable burials and highlighted features included on the map. Be sure to click on the hyperlinks to access GPS coordinates and grave photos to help guide you along.
For more history on the cemetery's evolution, click on the history tab above.
Thank you for touring Rhinebeck Cemetery!
NOTABLE BURIALS
1. Neysa McMein
“Highest-paid artist of the Jazz Age.” Algonquin round table wit. Fought for women’s suffrage. Click here for grave photo and more information.
2. Griffin Hoffman
Proprietor and one time owner of Rhinebeck Hotel (Beekman Arms), 1864-1873. Click here for grave photo and more information.
3. Henry Booth Cowles
Lawyer and US Congressman. Click here for grave photo and more information.
4. John Armstrong, Jr.
Armstrong was a Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer, Continental Congressman, US Senator, and Presidential Cabinet Secretary. John and Alida Livingston Armstrong, his wife, built the main house at Rokeby and farmed the property until their deaths. John Jacob Astor, who died on the Titanic, was his great-grandson. The Armstrong family vault is also the burial place of Alida and at least two of their children, Henry Beekman Armstrong and John Armstrong. The vault was built in 1903, paid for by his grandsons, Henry Beekman Armstrong and James A. Armstrong. Prior to that, Armstrong and family were entombed in an "ancient vault" at the cemetery that no longer exists. Click here for gave photo and more information.
5. Mary Regina Miller
Founder and benefactor of the Starr Institute in Rhinebeck. Click here for grave photo and more information.
6. General Martin Heermance
Commanded a brigade in the War of 1812. Click here for grave photo and more information.
7. Richard Schell
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 9th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1874 to 1875. Also served as a Member of the New York State Legislature. Click here for grave photo and more information.
8. Andrew Frazier
African-American Revolutionary War veteran, landowner in Milan, NY and great- grandfather of Susan Elizabeth Frazier. Click here for grave photo and more information.
Susan Elizabeth Frazier
Leader on issues of women’s and African-American rights and teacher in the New York City Schools. Click here for grave photo and more information.
9. Jack
Jack’s inscription reads:
“To the memory of JACK, a native of Africa, a most faithful and industrious man, who died at an advanced age, October 17, 1826.” Click here for grave photo and more information.
10. George Saltford
Landscaper and florist who built Rhinebeck’s first violet greenhouse catalyzing the commercial violet industry in the Hudson Valley. Click here for grave photo and more information.
11. Margaret Lynch “Daisy” Suckley
Cousin, companion, and confidante of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lived and died at her family’s Rhinecliff estate, Wilderstein. Click here for grave photo and more information.
12. Helen Reed DeLaporte
Teacher and former student of the DeGarmo Institute in Rhinebeck. Vassar College graduate, 1886. Elected to the Rhinebeck school board and first woman to be elected to the Dutchess County board of education. Founded the Chancellor Livingston chapter of the DAR in Rhinebeck. Click here for grave photo and more information.
13. William Kelly
American merchant and New York State politician. Purchased the Ellerslie estate in 1841. Click here for grave photo and more information.
14. George Veitch
Rhinebeck architect and builder. Designed Rhinebeck Episcopal Church and Wyndcliffe. Click here for grave photo and more information.
15. Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones
In 1851, Jones commissioned architect George Veitch to build her a 24-room gothic villa, Wyndcliffe, one of the first 19th century Rhinebeck-river mansions. Considered grand by some and a gloomy monstrosity by others, the opulent villa and accompanying lifestyle gave way to the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses.” Jones’ niece, Edith Wharton, spent much of her childhood at Wyndcliffe, and later used the mansion as a backdrop for some of her novels. Several years ago, her gravestone fell off its base and broke in three pieces. Click here for pre-broken grave photo and more information.
16. Alice Astor Pleydell-Bouverie
Born Ava Alice Muriel Astor, was an American heiress, socialite and daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. Click here for grave photo and more information.
17. Tracy Dows
Patriarch of the Dows clan who amassed numerous properties on which he established his Fox Hollow estate, south of the Village of Rhinebeck. A onetime owner of the Beekman Arms. The Dutchess County Fair permanently relocated to Rhinebeck in 1919 due to his influence. Click here for grave photo and more information.
Deborah Dows
Leading equestrian and founder of the still operating Southlands Foundation in Rhinebeck. Daughter of Tracy Dows and sister of Olin. Click here for grave photo and more information.
Olin Dows
Son of Tracy Dows and brother of Deborah. He was an artist who served with the US Army in the European Theater of Operations during WWII. Commissioned to paint a series of murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office and Hyde Park Post Office (1939 and 1941). Click here for grave photo and for more information. Here, too.
18. Laura Franklin “Polly” Delano
Cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Click here for grave photo and more information.
19. Levi Parsons Morton
US Vice President under Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893). US Congressman and New York State Governor. Click here
for grave photo and more information.
Mary Morton
The youngest daughter of Levi P. Morton, Vice President under Benjamin Harrison and Governor of New York. Launched “Holiday Farm" in Rhinecliff, and later in Rhinebeck (today's Astor Home), which was the family’s first philanthropic effort. Click here for grave photo and for more information see:
20. William Platt Adams
Lineal descendant of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams. Upon his death, Adams left a sizable bequest to the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association. Click here for grave photo and more information.
21. Lorena Alice “Hick” Hickok
American journalist and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. Click here for more grave photo and more information.
22. Helen Huntington Hull
Prominent socialite, patron of the arts, heiress and political hostess. Click here for grave photo and more information.
23. Herbert Pinkham
Superintendent of Astor estate at Ferncliff and civil engineer who designed many of the buildings there. Click here for grave photo and more information.
24. Barbary Waters
Enslaved to the Robert Sands family. Freed in 1815. Click here for grave photo and more information.
25. Legrand Curtis
An early Rhinebeck coffin and furniture maker. Click here for grave photo and more information.
26. Elisha Holdridge
A soldier of in theWar of 1812 and as a drummer boy 150th Reg NYSV in the Civil War. Click here for grave photo and more information.
27. Hazard Champlin
Prolific local surveyor and map maker. Click here for grave photo and more information.
28. Lt. Robert Armstrong
Civil War soldier serving as an officer in the US Colored Troops. Click here for grave photo and more information.
29. Daniel A. McCarty
Revolutionary War Soldier who was at the battle of Bunker Hill. Click here for grave photo and more information.
30. Maria James
Welsh born poet who lived with the Reverend Freeborn Garrettson family. Click here for grave photo and more information.
31. Arthur Cozine
An actor in many early Vitagraph studio films, circa 1913-1917. Location and financial manager for Paramount Studios, NY and executive manager of Long Island City Paramount Studio for 20 years. Click here for grave photo and more information.
HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES
HISTORIC CEMETERY
A Section
Former Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery (up until 1883 when the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took control of operations).
B Section
Former Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery (up until 1883 when the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took control of operations). Bodies from the Baptist Cemetery were moved to part of this section in 1913.
C Section
Former Episcopal Church of Messiah burial grounds (up until 1905 when the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took control of operations). This land was originally given to the church by Lewis Livingston in 1861.
CX Section
Former Episcopal Church burial ground. Land donated by Fanny Crosby.
CXH Section
Ellsworth Hicks sold this land to the Rhinebeck Association Cemetery in 1974 for $350. Ellsworth, Frederick, Richard and Carol Hicks are all buried in this section.
D Section
Former Methodist Church burial grounds. Land donated to the church by Catherine Garrettson in 1832 and Mary Garrettson in 1856.
E Section & Historical African-American Burial Ground
This half-acre, which eventually became known as Section E and “Potter’s Field,” came into existence through the efforts of Mary Garrettson, the daughter of prominent Methodist missionary and abolitionist Freeborn Garrettson, who, in 1853, donated the ½ acre parcel for “people of color.” It remained the burial grounds for the black community until the mid-1900s. Click here for more information.
F Section & Veteran’s Section
The Veteran's Section was created in Section F in 1947. While the cemetery takes care of regular maintenance and burials, plot allotment in the Veteran’s Section is managed by the Veteran’s Administration.
G. Stone Walls
The Mill Street (Route 9) stone wall was originally built in 1894 by the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association. With donations from Friends of Rhinebeck Cemetery and the Frost Memorial Fund, the wall was rebuilt by the Town of Rhinebeck in 2019. The Mill Road stone wall was built earlier, likely by the Methodist Church (circa 1856) whose burial area was just beyond the gates prior the cemetery incorporating as a non-sectarian association cemetery in 1883.
H. DuBois Obelisks
The DuBois brothers hailed from Fishkill but were related to the old New Paltz Huguenot family of that name. Coert DuBois was a Rhinebeck physician and Colonel John A. DuBois served in the Civil War. Their brother, Francis, is also buried with them. They are memorialized by these two identical brownstone monuments. In 2016, a tree came down in a fierce storm and along with it one of the obelisks cracked and fell to the ground in several pieces. Click here for pre-broken grave photo and more information.
I. Civil War Monument
Dedicated on Memorial Day 1901 to the local volunteers who served in the 150th New York Infantry Regiment, Companies F and K; the 128th New York Infantry Regiment, Company C; the 80th New York Infantry Regiment and 44th NY Volunteers. Each side of the monument depicts a Civil war battle in which these infantries participated --- Antietam, Sharpsburg, Port Hudson, Gettysburg and Cedar Creek.
J. Zinc Monument of Toneu & Hogan
In the 1870s, inexpensive cemetery monuments began to be made of zinc. This decorative example is the only one of its kind in the Rhinebeck Cemetery. Click here for grave photo and more information.
K. Receiving Vault
Constructed in 1898 for a cost of $950, this receiving vault was used until the 1980s to hold bodies through the winter for spring burial.
L. DAR Memorial Gates
In 1924, The Chancellor Livingston Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sought permission from the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association to erect a Memorial Gateway dedicated to Veterans of the American Revolution and World War I. The gates were dedicated on July 4. 1926.
M. W.S. Jennings Vault
William S. Jennings purchased this burial vault in 1857 for $25. Legend has it, that the vault contains a coffin with a glass lid. In 1958, two Poughkeepsie men were arrested for removing a skull. Subsequent vandalism prompted the cemetery board to backfill the vault to deter access. Only the top of the vault can be seen today. Click here for grave photo.
N. Copper Beech Tree
This grand tree is estimated to have been planted around the turn of the 20th century (1895-1905). One of two copper beeches gracing the cemetery grounds. The other stands in a grove with two maples just east of this one.
O. Cemetery Office & Garage
The concrete block garage was erected in 1958, with a greenhouse added in 1964. The greenhouse was removed and renovated into an office in the 1980s. A second office renovation occurred in 2020.
P. Adams Memorial Chapel
In 1964, the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association voted to use a portion of a bequest from William Platt Adams for the erection of a new chapel. Completed in 1965, the William Platt Adams Memorial Chapel was built by contractor James Wetzler for $16,105.49. The chapel was intended to be used for funerals, but local morticians directed funeral services toward their own facilities and the chapel was rarely used. In the early 1980s, the Museum of Rhinebeck History moved its collection into the chapel. In 1986, the collection was removed to renovate the quarters for a new cemetery superintendent. Prior to that, no superintendent had ever lived at the cemetery.
GRASMERE & NATURAL BURIAL GROUND
Q. Grasmere Pillars
These brick and stone pillars were constructed from brick made from clay sourced from a field south of the Grasmere house that came to be called “the brick Lot.” The pillars mark one of the entrances into the Grasmere Estate, as this land parcel once belonged to Grasmere. They were built circa 1896.
R. Sugar Maple Allee
A locust allee once lined Mill Road along the land parcel that now makes up the Grasmere Cemetery and Natural Burial Ground. When the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took possession for burial in the 1970s, an allée of locusts trees, planted circa 1858, were cut down. In keeping with this vision, but to also mirror the sugar maples lining the other side of Mill Road, sugar maples were planted by the Town of Rhinebeck Cemetery in 2006.
S. Mausoleums
The first and largest mausoleum was installed in the Grasmere Cemetery in the early 1980s by the Mancini family. Subsequent, smaller, mausoleums have been installed since then, all in Section 3.
T. Natural Burial Ground Gate
Friends of Rhinebeck Cemetery commissioned Rhinebeck artisan Todd Young with designing and building this one of kind gate, completed in 2019. Some of the wood used in the making of the gate came from downed limbs in the burial ground. Todd Young also hand crafted the locust bench and sign, both of which can be found at the entrance to the natural burial ground.
1. Neysa McMein
“Highest-paid artist of the Jazz Age.” Algonquin round table wit. Fought for women’s suffrage. Click here for grave photo and more information.
2. Griffin Hoffman
Proprietor and one time owner of Rhinebeck Hotel (Beekman Arms), 1864-1873. Click here for grave photo and more information.
3. Henry Booth Cowles
Lawyer and US Congressman. Click here for grave photo and more information.
4. John Armstrong, Jr.
Armstrong was a Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer, Continental Congressman, US Senator, and Presidential Cabinet Secretary. John and Alida Livingston Armstrong, his wife, built the main house at Rokeby and farmed the property until their deaths. John Jacob Astor, who died on the Titanic, was his great-grandson. The Armstrong family vault is also the burial place of Alida and at least two of their children, Henry Beekman Armstrong and John Armstrong. The vault was built in 1903, paid for by his grandsons, Henry Beekman Armstrong and James A. Armstrong. Prior to that, Armstrong and family were entombed in an "ancient vault" at the cemetery that no longer exists. Click here for gave photo and more information.
5. Mary Regina Miller
Founder and benefactor of the Starr Institute in Rhinebeck. Click here for grave photo and more information.
6. General Martin Heermance
Commanded a brigade in the War of 1812. Click here for grave photo and more information.
7. Richard Schell
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 9th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1874 to 1875. Also served as a Member of the New York State Legislature. Click here for grave photo and more information.
8. Andrew Frazier
African-American Revolutionary War veteran, landowner in Milan, NY and great- grandfather of Susan Elizabeth Frazier. Click here for grave photo and more information.
Susan Elizabeth Frazier
Leader on issues of women’s and African-American rights and teacher in the New York City Schools. Click here for grave photo and more information.
9. Jack
Jack’s inscription reads:
“To the memory of JACK, a native of Africa, a most faithful and industrious man, who died at an advanced age, October 17, 1826.” Click here for grave photo and more information.
10. George Saltford
Landscaper and florist who built Rhinebeck’s first violet greenhouse catalyzing the commercial violet industry in the Hudson Valley. Click here for grave photo and more information.
11. Margaret Lynch “Daisy” Suckley
Cousin, companion, and confidante of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lived and died at her family’s Rhinecliff estate, Wilderstein. Click here for grave photo and more information.
12. Helen Reed DeLaporte
Teacher and former student of the DeGarmo Institute in Rhinebeck. Vassar College graduate, 1886. Elected to the Rhinebeck school board and first woman to be elected to the Dutchess County board of education. Founded the Chancellor Livingston chapter of the DAR in Rhinebeck. Click here for grave photo and more information.
13. William Kelly
American merchant and New York State politician. Purchased the Ellerslie estate in 1841. Click here for grave photo and more information.
14. George Veitch
Rhinebeck architect and builder. Designed Rhinebeck Episcopal Church and Wyndcliffe. Click here for grave photo and more information.
15. Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones
In 1851, Jones commissioned architect George Veitch to build her a 24-room gothic villa, Wyndcliffe, one of the first 19th century Rhinebeck-river mansions. Considered grand by some and a gloomy monstrosity by others, the opulent villa and accompanying lifestyle gave way to the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses.” Jones’ niece, Edith Wharton, spent much of her childhood at Wyndcliffe, and later used the mansion as a backdrop for some of her novels. Several years ago, her gravestone fell off its base and broke in three pieces. Click here for pre-broken grave photo and more information.
16. Alice Astor Pleydell-Bouverie
Born Ava Alice Muriel Astor, was an American heiress, socialite and daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. Click here for grave photo and more information.
17. Tracy Dows
Patriarch of the Dows clan who amassed numerous properties on which he established his Fox Hollow estate, south of the Village of Rhinebeck. A onetime owner of the Beekman Arms. The Dutchess County Fair permanently relocated to Rhinebeck in 1919 due to his influence. Click here for grave photo and more information.
Deborah Dows
Leading equestrian and founder of the still operating Southlands Foundation in Rhinebeck. Daughter of Tracy Dows and sister of Olin. Click here for grave photo and more information.
Olin Dows
Son of Tracy Dows and brother of Deborah. He was an artist who served with the US Army in the European Theater of Operations during WWII. Commissioned to paint a series of murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office and Hyde Park Post Office (1939 and 1941). Click here for grave photo and for more information. Here, too.
18. Laura Franklin “Polly” Delano
Cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Click here for grave photo and more information.
19. Levi Parsons Morton
US Vice President under Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893). US Congressman and New York State Governor. Click here
for grave photo and more information.
Mary Morton
The youngest daughter of Levi P. Morton, Vice President under Benjamin Harrison and Governor of New York. Launched “Holiday Farm" in Rhinecliff, and later in Rhinebeck (today's Astor Home), which was the family’s first philanthropic effort. Click here for grave photo and for more information see:
20. William Platt Adams
Lineal descendant of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams. Upon his death, Adams left a sizable bequest to the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association. Click here for grave photo and more information.
21. Lorena Alice “Hick” Hickok
American journalist and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. Click here for more grave photo and more information.
22. Helen Huntington Hull
Prominent socialite, patron of the arts, heiress and political hostess. Click here for grave photo and more information.
23. Herbert Pinkham
Superintendent of Astor estate at Ferncliff and civil engineer who designed many of the buildings there. Click here for grave photo and more information.
24. Barbary Waters
Enslaved to the Robert Sands family. Freed in 1815. Click here for grave photo and more information.
25. Legrand Curtis
An early Rhinebeck coffin and furniture maker. Click here for grave photo and more information.
26. Elisha Holdridge
A soldier of in theWar of 1812 and as a drummer boy 150th Reg NYSV in the Civil War. Click here for grave photo and more information.
27. Hazard Champlin
Prolific local surveyor and map maker. Click here for grave photo and more information.
28. Lt. Robert Armstrong
Civil War soldier serving as an officer in the US Colored Troops. Click here for grave photo and more information.
29. Daniel A. McCarty
Revolutionary War Soldier who was at the battle of Bunker Hill. Click here for grave photo and more information.
30. Maria James
Welsh born poet who lived with the Reverend Freeborn Garrettson family. Click here for grave photo and more information.
31. Arthur Cozine
An actor in many early Vitagraph studio films, circa 1913-1917. Location and financial manager for Paramount Studios, NY and executive manager of Long Island City Paramount Studio for 20 years. Click here for grave photo and more information.
HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES
HISTORIC CEMETERY
A Section
Former Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery (up until 1883 when the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took control of operations).
B Section
Former Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery (up until 1883 when the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took control of operations). Bodies from the Baptist Cemetery were moved to part of this section in 1913.
C Section
Former Episcopal Church of Messiah burial grounds (up until 1905 when the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took control of operations). This land was originally given to the church by Lewis Livingston in 1861.
CX Section
Former Episcopal Church burial ground. Land donated by Fanny Crosby.
CXH Section
Ellsworth Hicks sold this land to the Rhinebeck Association Cemetery in 1974 for $350. Ellsworth, Frederick, Richard and Carol Hicks are all buried in this section.
D Section
Former Methodist Church burial grounds. Land donated to the church by Catherine Garrettson in 1832 and Mary Garrettson in 1856.
E Section & Historical African-American Burial Ground
This half-acre, which eventually became known as Section E and “Potter’s Field,” came into existence through the efforts of Mary Garrettson, the daughter of prominent Methodist missionary and abolitionist Freeborn Garrettson, who, in 1853, donated the ½ acre parcel for “people of color.” It remained the burial grounds for the black community until the mid-1900s. Click here for more information.
F Section & Veteran’s Section
The Veteran's Section was created in Section F in 1947. While the cemetery takes care of regular maintenance and burials, plot allotment in the Veteran’s Section is managed by the Veteran’s Administration.
G. Stone Walls
The Mill Street (Route 9) stone wall was originally built in 1894 by the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association. With donations from Friends of Rhinebeck Cemetery and the Frost Memorial Fund, the wall was rebuilt by the Town of Rhinebeck in 2019. The Mill Road stone wall was built earlier, likely by the Methodist Church (circa 1856) whose burial area was just beyond the gates prior the cemetery incorporating as a non-sectarian association cemetery in 1883.
H. DuBois Obelisks
The DuBois brothers hailed from Fishkill but were related to the old New Paltz Huguenot family of that name. Coert DuBois was a Rhinebeck physician and Colonel John A. DuBois served in the Civil War. Their brother, Francis, is also buried with them. They are memorialized by these two identical brownstone monuments. In 2016, a tree came down in a fierce storm and along with it one of the obelisks cracked and fell to the ground in several pieces. Click here for pre-broken grave photo and more information.
I. Civil War Monument
Dedicated on Memorial Day 1901 to the local volunteers who served in the 150th New York Infantry Regiment, Companies F and K; the 128th New York Infantry Regiment, Company C; the 80th New York Infantry Regiment and 44th NY Volunteers. Each side of the monument depicts a Civil war battle in which these infantries participated --- Antietam, Sharpsburg, Port Hudson, Gettysburg and Cedar Creek.
J. Zinc Monument of Toneu & Hogan
In the 1870s, inexpensive cemetery monuments began to be made of zinc. This decorative example is the only one of its kind in the Rhinebeck Cemetery. Click here for grave photo and more information.
K. Receiving Vault
Constructed in 1898 for a cost of $950, this receiving vault was used until the 1980s to hold bodies through the winter for spring burial.
L. DAR Memorial Gates
In 1924, The Chancellor Livingston Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sought permission from the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association to erect a Memorial Gateway dedicated to Veterans of the American Revolution and World War I. The gates were dedicated on July 4. 1926.
M. W.S. Jennings Vault
William S. Jennings purchased this burial vault in 1857 for $25. Legend has it, that the vault contains a coffin with a glass lid. In 1958, two Poughkeepsie men were arrested for removing a skull. Subsequent vandalism prompted the cemetery board to backfill the vault to deter access. Only the top of the vault can be seen today. Click here for grave photo.
N. Copper Beech Tree
This grand tree is estimated to have been planted around the turn of the 20th century (1895-1905). One of two copper beeches gracing the cemetery grounds. The other stands in a grove with two maples just east of this one.
O. Cemetery Office & Garage
The concrete block garage was erected in 1958, with a greenhouse added in 1964. The greenhouse was removed and renovated into an office in the 1980s. A second office renovation occurred in 2020.
P. Adams Memorial Chapel
In 1964, the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association voted to use a portion of a bequest from William Platt Adams for the erection of a new chapel. Completed in 1965, the William Platt Adams Memorial Chapel was built by contractor James Wetzler for $16,105.49. The chapel was intended to be used for funerals, but local morticians directed funeral services toward their own facilities and the chapel was rarely used. In the early 1980s, the Museum of Rhinebeck History moved its collection into the chapel. In 1986, the collection was removed to renovate the quarters for a new cemetery superintendent. Prior to that, no superintendent had ever lived at the cemetery.
GRASMERE & NATURAL BURIAL GROUND
Q. Grasmere Pillars
These brick and stone pillars were constructed from brick made from clay sourced from a field south of the Grasmere house that came to be called “the brick Lot.” The pillars mark one of the entrances into the Grasmere Estate, as this land parcel once belonged to Grasmere. They were built circa 1896.
R. Sugar Maple Allee
A locust allee once lined Mill Road along the land parcel that now makes up the Grasmere Cemetery and Natural Burial Ground. When the Rhinebeck Cemetery Association took possession for burial in the 1970s, an allée of locusts trees, planted circa 1858, were cut down. In keeping with this vision, but to also mirror the sugar maples lining the other side of Mill Road, sugar maples were planted by the Town of Rhinebeck Cemetery in 2006.
S. Mausoleums
The first and largest mausoleum was installed in the Grasmere Cemetery in the early 1980s by the Mancini family. Subsequent, smaller, mausoleums have been installed since then, all in Section 3.
T. Natural Burial Ground Gate
Friends of Rhinebeck Cemetery commissioned Rhinebeck artisan Todd Young with designing and building this one of kind gate, completed in 2019. Some of the wood used in the making of the gate came from downed limbs in the burial ground. Todd Young also hand crafted the locust bench and sign, both of which can be found at the entrance to the natural burial ground.