Patterson-Hooper 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 Endwell in

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. The cemetery was originally part of the Amos Patterson family farm and the first burials occurred in 1800 and 1804. A single large

obelisk An obelisk (; from grc, ὀβελίσκος ; diminutive of ''obelos'', " spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally constructed by Anc ...

marking the center of the plot memorializes members of the Patterson family. Burials date from 1800 to 1910 with the majority before 1850. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 2008.

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Amos Patterson House materials
– Library of Congress {{National Register of Historic Places in New York Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Cemeteries in Broome County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Broome County, New York