Roslyn Cemetery

Roslyn Cemetery

Roslyn Cemetery is a cemetery located in the village of Roslyn, in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island.

The cemetery office was a toll house for the Long Island Motor Parkway, a concrete highway that extended from Queens to Ronkonkoma, and is considered to be the nation's first modern highway.

Notable interments

*Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of "The Secret Garden", "A Little Princess" and "Little Lord Fauntleroy"
*William Cullen Bryant, poet and jouranlist, lived in Roslyn
*Christopher Morley, poet and journalist, lived in Roslyn
*Stephen Taber, a United States Congressman from New York from 1865-1869

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=65865 Find-A-Grave interments at Roslyn Cemetery]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA.html#RA906C622 Political Graveyard interments at Roslyn Cemetery]


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