Washington Cemetery (Brooklyn)

Washington Cemetery
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Established1850[1]
Location
5400 Bay Parkway, Mapleton, Brooklyn, New York
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°37′08″N 73°58′32″W / 40.6190°N 73.9756°W / 40.6190; -73.9756
TypeJewish
Find a GraveWashington Cemetery
Washington Cemetery – office building located on the grounds of cemetery#1, at Bay Parkway and McDonald Avenue
Washington Cemetery – eastern edge of cemetery#1, bordering Ocean Parkway

Washington Cemetery is a historical and predominantly Jewish burial ground located at 5400 Bay Parkway in Mapleton, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Founded in Kings County in 1850, outside the independent city of Brooklyn,[1] it became a Jewish burial ground as early as 1857, at first serving primarily German Jewish immigrants. Brooklyn's cemeteries were authorized under the Rural Cemetery Act of 1847, which allowed for the construction of commercial cemeteries outside what were then city limits. This part of Kings County was not yet incorporated into the City of Brooklyn, and the legislation resulted in the development of several large parcels of farmland as cemeteries.[2] Later in the 19th and early 20th centuries, most Jewish immigrants came from the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe.

  1. ^ a b The Leonard Manual of the Cemeteries of New York and Vicinity. New York: J.H. Leonard. 1901. pp. 90–91. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Scarce Brooklyn Cemeteries", The Brooklyn Ink[usurped], 28 March 2011