All Saints Chapel And Morris Family Burial Ground
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All Saints Chapel and Morris Family Burial Ground is a historic
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church located at Morris in Otsego County, New York. The church is a small stone
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style chapel built from about 1866 to 1868. The rectangular building is three bays wide and four bays deep under a steeply sloping gable roof with
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shingles. It features a projecting central
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tower and a large
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. The first burial in the Morris Family Burial Ground dates to 1791 and it remains an active family burial ground. Also on the property is a wagon shed dating to the 1860s. ''See also:'' It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.


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* * {{National Register of Historic Places in New York Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Gothic Revival church buildings in New York (state) Churches completed in 1868 19th-century Episcopal church buildings Churches in Otsego County, New York Cemeteries in Otsego County, New York Anglican cemeteries in the United States 1791 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Otsego County, New York Cemeteries established in the 1790s