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The Harrison Meeting House Site and Cemetery, also known as the Germantown Church Site and Cemetery or just the Germantown Cemetery, is located on
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(NY 416) right at its northern terminus with
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, across from
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just outside the village of Montgomery,
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s of what would eventually become the Town of Montgomery came here and built their church on this site in the early 18th century. It would later be surrounded with their houses. The church no longer stands, but several of those early settlers are buried within the
stone wall Stone walls are a kind of masonry construction that has been used for thousands of years. The first stone walls were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones into a dry stone wall. Later, mortar and plaster ...
around the site. The Town of Montgomery has taken possession after the site was restored from past neglect and added a small interpretive
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. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1998.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, New York List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, New York This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, New York. The locatio ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison Meeting House Site And Cemetery Cemeteries in Orange County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, New York Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)