City: Croton
County: Westchester
State: NY
Description
19 Old Post Road
Croton-on-Hudson
Westchester County
New York USA
Postal Code: 10520
Phone: (914) 271-3468
The Bethel Cemetery is located on a hill adjacent to the old Albany and New York Post Road, and overlooking the Hudson River,
The cemetery is in two sections and contains about 5,000 graves; the date of the earliest burial is 1801. It includes the grave of noted playwright and author Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965).
In the center of the cemetery stands the Bethel Chapel, built a few years after the end of the Revolutionary War,(about 1780) it is the earliest Methodist meetinghouse in Westchester County History.
