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    Lakeview Cemeteries - View from Lakeview Cemetery and Waverly Cemetery (other side of the fence)

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    I was here to get some rubbings about 10 years ago when it was all overgrown. . . You had to start…read moreon Waverly Ave and work east through the brush and broken fencing to get to the then-obscure main strip, which features some of the highlights of this cemetery . . . the row of obelisks, John Rock Smith Monument, and stones for the Shipwreck victims of the (1895) Louis V. Place, and (1897) Nachum Chapin. Now, there is a crew of guys speaking to politicians, landscaping the grounds and raising money for restoration: They were recently featured on the back page of Sunday Newsday (click link below). A great graveyard. . actually there are five old cemeteries on this plot, with stones dating back to 1794, connecting moderne tymes with the olde-timey spirits of your Patchogue brethren. http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/lilife/ny-lftstory5334850aug19,0,3320412.story

    From the owner: Auto entrance on West Main Street, just west of the YMCA/Blue Point Brewery. Pedestrian entrance…read moreon Waverly Avenue. Collectively known as “Lakeview Cemeteries”, the property holds five historic cemeteries dating to 1793. On Main Street, Lakeview and Rice cemeteries are owned by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The western “Waverly Cemetery,” has gravestones dating to 1798, is legally “abandoned” and maintained by the Town of Brookhaven and Friends of Lakeview Cemeteries, a volunteer committee of the Greater Patchogue Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. PatchogueCemetery.org

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    Lakeview Cemeteries - The Smith Genealogical monument.

    The Smith Genealogical monument.

    Lakeview Cemeteries - The cemetery contains the graves of over 100 veterans from the American revolution through Vietnam

    The cemetery contains the graves of over 100 veterans from the American revolution through Vietnam

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