Famous People & Places
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Alexander S. Gardiner (1835 -1914) farmer, merchant, businessman. Pickle mogul of Greenlawn.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) French author and American pilot who died in WWII.
Arthur Dove (1880-1946) and Helen Torr (1886-1967). American Modernist Painters.
August Heckscher (1848-1941) Industrialist, Real Estate Developer & Philanthropist.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (founded 1843) Park Avenue, Huntington.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) Educator, Leader, founder of Tuskegee Institute.
Cornelius H. Delamater (1821-1889) of Eaton’s Neck, Farmer & Industrialist.
David Conklin (1743 – 1786) Farmer & Revolutionary War Patriot.
Daniel Whitehead Kissam (1763 – 1839) Colonial Era Physician.
Edward Thompson (1845-1923) Northport Entrepreneur & Lawbook Publisher.
First Purchase (1653) land for Town of Huntington bought from the Matinecock Indians.
Huntington’s Liberty Flag was first flown over the Village Green on July 22, 1776.
George Grosz (1893-1959) Internationally Renowned leader of the Berlin Dada Movement
George Washington Brush (1842-1927) Dentist, Physician, Congressional Medal of Honor winner.
Harry Chapin (1942-1981) Singer, Songwriter, Humanitarian.
Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) Lawyer, Diplomat, U. S. Secretary of War during WWII.
Henry Scudder (1743-1822) patriot of the American Revolution and NY State legislator.
The Cemetery, located between NY Avenue & Oakwood Road, is incorporated March 1851.