Cold Springs Cemetery (also known as Cold Spring Cemetery) is a historic

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

located at Lockport in

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. Among the prominent burials are

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proponent Jesse Hawley, Cuthbert W. Pound, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1932 to 1934, and World War II

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recipient William F. Leonard. Incorporated in 1841,Cold Springs Cemetery
/ref> the cemetery was listed on the

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in 2004.

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Image:Cold Springs Cemetery View Jun 09.JPG, Cold Springs Cemetery, June 2009 Image:Cold Springs Cemetery Headstone Jun 09.JPG, Cold Springs Cemetery, June 2009

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* * Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) 1815 establishments in New York (state) Cemeteries in Niagara County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Niagara County, New York Cemeteries established in the 1810s {{NiagaraCountyNY-NRHP-stub