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Home My WebLink AboutOR-73 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE N0. /0311) rtfiiN3q'�_7- DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD .' NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES OR-73 ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Down Qf S uthold/SPLIA DATE: November 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd._ __ TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892 Southold, LI, NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): Central Cemetery 2- COIJNTY:-Suffolk TOWN/CITYSDuLbDld 'VILLAGE:Qrient 3. STREET LOCATION: east side of Tabor Rd, , bet. Main Rd. and Orchard St. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private 5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS: 6. USE: Original: Cemetery Present: cemetery 7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yesil No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain YPg DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone RI c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MA'I L•RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 11. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members (il' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls Q stone walls and entrance posts d. metal (explain) e. othercrrSuest-onpg 10. CONDITION: a. excellent �1 b. good D c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated [11 I I. INTEGRITY: a. original site J] b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 12. PHOTO: neg: KK VII-20, fm W 13, MAP. NYS DOT Orient quad •,i ted ��°a � v l Bfrrnn �d 41Vi' w Lake 24 Pp�Q •'y - AL ! Cern :A � � � lCe Iral t i r eaYa .'Orie ., Ce YathtClub �. a .s._ - v...... •.�+".+".` _.Tc.,#�.: ..x- ... 2 + HP-'I — � ca OR--73 14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ® b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ E other: 15, RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn El b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens i. landscape features: large trees at entrance ;. other: stone walls and entrance posts (1906) . 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land [N b. woodland ❑ c.scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential �O h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Central Cemetery is located south of Main Rd. , (NYS Rte 25) , directly east of the Orient Historic District. It is served by two entrances, from Tabor Rd. to the west and Orchard St to the south. OR-74 fills this SW corner, surrounded by the cemetery. 18. OTIIER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Roughly L-shaped cemetery surrounded by random course rubble stone walls. Entrance posts with semi-octagonal fieldstone caps. Gravestones of various design, includ- ing a large number of obelisks. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1855 , 1858* ARCHITECT: BUILDER: r 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Orient Central Cemetery was founded in 1858 on land donated by Barzilla Young. It is an importantcommiunity asset. 211. SOURCES:* Historic Orient Village, Oysterponds Historical Society, 1976, r. 41. Richard M. Bayles. Historical and Descri tine Sketches of SuffolkCounty. 1674 Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant. Central Cemetery Orient OR-73 The Brown's Hill bury_ in_g ground (No. 10 on the histori- cal map) contains about 54 graves and was used from around 1699 until about 1766. Here, beginning with Gideon Youngs, many of the first residents were laid to rest, and some of die tombstone inscriptions were, according to an early historian, "remarkable for their quaintness and a saintly humor . . ." On duly 10, 1845, Griffin made an entry in his journal scolding the community for its neglect of this cemetery. "It is now fifty years since the inhabitants of this place have used it as a burying plabe. A visit to this solemn spot shows the heartless neglect and inattention of the present generation, respecting even common decency towards the ashes of their honored Christian fathers and mothers. The gravestones are many of them broken and mutilated by time, or beasts, or man. . . Is it possible that a people, professing civilization and Christianity, can calmly sit and see the affecting desecra- tion of the selected resting place of the first proprietors of their now wealthy and peaceful abodes? The means are assuredly abundant, but the heart is wanting. . . A genera- tion or two more walking in the selfish steps of the present one, will render this interesting depository of the dust of those progenitors as difficult to be pointed out to the traveler as is now the sites of Babylon or Ninevah." The cemetery is in better shape nowadays since its mainte- nance was taken over by the Oysterponds. Historical Society, which came into existence just a hundred years after Griffin's comment. In I79U_, tW cemetery across the road from the Congre- gational Church was started. In addition, there were estab- lished two private cemeteries along the road to Orient Point (Latham and Terry) and two near Truman': R,sPch. Orient Central Cemetary was founde"fc in 1858 on iand donated by arzi la Dung. The old slaves' burying ground situated on aknoll of Hog Pond Farm contains the graves of Dr. Seth H. Tuthill, his wife, Maria, and 20 family slaves. The Tuthills wished to be buried with their former servants. The U.S. Census of 1820 lists only one slave in Orient. Slavery was abolished here about 1830. Historic Orient Village, Oysterponds Historical Society, 1976, p. 41 . ter adspW to the purpose was built in 1844. This stands on the main road in-the northern part of the village,and the old vil- lage burying ground lies across the road nearby. Another,a more modern cemetery.lies off Ae road a quarter of a mile south of this. Still another, a much more ancient burial place than either,lies on the sound ahere, a little north of the village. This reating-place of the dead lies in a deep valley, amid the appropriate and impressive solitude of the shore line hills, where scaroe another sound ever breaker the stillness but the moaning of the wind and the murmer of the sea. The Meth- odist Episcopal chnwl�, standing near the center of the vil- lage was built in 1836,the corner stone laid on the 3d of June. A Division, K of T., is sustained in this village, and numbers about one hundred members. Richard M. Bayles, Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Suffolk County, 1874, p. 3088.