[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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