The New York State Department of State announces the first annual “Caring for Your Cemetery Day” will take place Saturday, ... Rossville Cemetery Assoc., 818 Route 32, Newburgh, NY. Alan, ...

He was a poet, author, and member of the New York State Senate and House of Representatives. The building was demolished 45 years after his death in 1875. In 1827, slavery in New York was abolished.

New York City may be known for its luxury skyscrapers and bustling streets, but just a few miles south of Manhattan, there is an altogether different sight to behold. Languishing in the water just ...

The cemetery of Rossville’s AME Zion Church is a New York City landmark Nathan Kensinger New York City has always been a collection of diverse communities—and while many have since been paved ...

Specialists using ground-penetrating radar detect 500 previously undiscovered graves at a historic African-American burial ground on Staten Island.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When the state of New York abolished slavery on July 4, 1827, a black man named Capt. John Jackson purchased land in Rossville -- a first in Richmond County -- at Sandy Ground.