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The cemetery is the burial place of many
Italian-American Catholics, even though it is a Protestant cemetery. This is due to the efforts of Father Ettore Barletta, who was in charge of the Italian Mission congregation at the nearby Moravian Church in the early 1900s. Catholic mafia families who had
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In what was a purely farming community, the 113-acre (46 ha) cemetery was originally made available as a free cemetery for the public in order to discourage families from using farm burial plots. After the closure in the 1880s of the South
Reformed Dutch Church in
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on Staten Island, having opened in 1740. The cemetery encompasses 113 acres (46 hectares) and is the property of the local
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congregation of Staten Island. To the cemetery's southwest is High Rock Park, one of the constituent parks of the
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gave the
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History of the
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510:. Moravian Cemetery Website
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508:"About Us"
489:References
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