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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, June 13, 2018
New Windsor awarded $331K for graveyard repairs
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The Town of New Windsor has been
awarded a grant of approximately $331,000
for improvements to the New Windsor
Woodlawn
Cemetery.
Specifically,
the money will go to pay for repairs
to headstones and monuments. “It will
pay to straighten, repair and realign the
monuments,” said New Windsor Chief of
Staff Colin Schmitt.
The bucolic cemetery was quiet on
a sunny late afternoon this month. A tall
monument at the front of the cemetery
had a round, stone sphere at the top that
read “eternal life.”
Located at Route 94 and Union
Avenue, the cemetery was incorporated
in October, 1870. Renamed the New
Windsor Woodlawn Cemetery when the
town took ownership of the cemetery
last year, the burial ground contains
approximately 7,800 sold plots with
room for approximately 4,000 more. The
cemetery encompasses 73 acres of town
property.
According to Schmitt, there are
hundreds of aging headstones and
Under a grant from the New York State Cemetery Board, the New Windsor Woodlawn Cemetery will see repairs to headstones and monuments.
monuments at the cemetery, marking
the graves of historic figures, including
Major-General James Clinton - brother of
New York’s first Governor George Clinton
who served from 1777 to 1795 – and many
TOMORROW is
of their family members.
The grant was awarded by the
New York State Cemetery Board. Work
is required to be completed by the end of
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Supervisor George Green said the town is
working on obtaining other grants to pay
to repave the roads inside the cemetery.
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