Sands Family 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 Sands Point in

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. It was established about 1704 and includes burials through 1867. It includes 12 rows of 86 extant headstones. Records indicate the cemetery contains 112 members of the family, relatives, and friends. It includes a number of notable examples of

funerary art Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including cenotaphs ("empty tombs"), tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains, and comm ...

. ''See also:'' It was added to the

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in 1992.

References

External links

"Early Burial Grounds," by Veronica Campiello (Port Washington News; November 2, 2015)
* {{National Register of Historic Places in New York Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) 1704 establishments in the Province of New York Cemeteries in Nassau County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Nassau County, New York