[Rarebooks] FS: 1862 NY Cemetery Prospectus for Lots of Lots for Resale

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1862 Rockland NY Cemetery Prospectus for Lots of Grave Lots for Investor 
Resale.

A very interesting prospectus for lots in this rural New York cemetery- 
the proprietors were not selling individual lots, but were offering very 
large groups of them, “lots of lots”, as it were, which would then be 
resold by investors and entrepreneurs individually at a profit, with the 
base price set by the proprietors to avoid anyone selling “discounted” 
grave sites. It doesn’t appear to have worked.

The cemetery website explains- “Nestled on the western slope of the 
bucolic Hudson Palisades, the Cemetery was organized by Eleazar Lord in 
1847. He was an author, educator, and first president of the Erie 
Railroad. Dr. Lord envisioned a cemetery that would become prominent as 
the final resting place for not only the deceased of the New York City 
area, but would be a magnet for notables on a national scale. With the 
foregoing as his plan, Dr. Lord brought his railroad and passengers with 
it to the little town of Piermont. Almost overnight, the town became a 
flourishing rail and water hub between New York City and points north 
and west. The original hamlet of Tappan Landing was renamed Piermont by 
Dr. Lord. History intervened and the Erie Railroad received a belated 
charter from the State of New Jersey requiring it to run its trains 
directly from Suffern, NY to Jersey City, NJ. Piermont, and Rockland 
Cemetery with it, was left in the backwater of progress. In 1880, a 
group of Piermont residents raised $50,000.00 toward the development of 
roads, bridges and other necessary improvements to facilitate access to 
the Cemetery. There was significant interest to make Rockland Cemetery a 
national cemetery. General John C. Fremont was interred there in 1890 
with high hope that he might be the first of many prominent Americans to 
be buried there [but] Arlington Cemetery, located across from 
Washington, D.C., gained the stature as a national cemetery while 
Rockland Cemetery was relegated to almost obscurity”.

Folded sheet. 8.5”x11, minor soil, and an odd little curving crease 
along the fold. [49901]  $125

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