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County Home Potters Field aka Poorhouse Cemetery
| Historic Site #: | 01-032 (Exists) Type: B1 | Town: | Arcadia | ||
| Site Name: | County Home Potters Field aka Poorhouse Cemetery | GPS Coordinates: | 43.067712, -77.036573 | ||
| Address: | 7237 Rt. 31 Newark NY | ||||
| Description: | |||||
Believed to have been 234 Memorials at one time The graves are marked with metal stake markers with numbers only. 2005 Driving Directions - Rte. 31 East toward Lyons. After you pass the WATS transportation, the Cemetery is on the Left, on top of a hill mound off from Rte. 31. | |||||
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| Photograph Contributed by © 2005 Daryl VerStreate Jr. and Amanda VerStreate | Photo from NYGENWEB Tufts are metal stake markers. |
| Historic narrative: | |||||
| Across Route 31 from the County Home there was at one time a small burial plot where county charges from the home were buried. There were no markers and has now completely disappeared (1952). For a list of those buried here, click this link: To search for an individual buried here, click this link: | |||||
NYGENWEB Cemetery web page
Findagrave web page for this cemetry