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Monfort Cemetery Tour

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New for 2024: Limited tours of one of our town's oldest cemeteries. 

 

These stones have stories to tell of the first families of Long Island.

  • Meet the "Mother of New Netherlands",  founders of the Town of North Hempstead and the Village of Roslyn

  • Leaders of the Dutch Reformed Churches in Manhasset and Oyster Bay  

  • The female Quaker preacher from Port Washiington, who was first (or second) to free a slave on Long Island.

  • From the Revolutionary War,  you'll meet  patriots, loyalists and some unfortunate prisoners of war.  

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Keep informed as this tour develops: email us here!

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Where:

Monfort Cemetery (behind the Post Office)

 

When: 2024 Tour dates & times to be announced

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  • Private group tours only

  • FREE! (Donations gladly accepted)

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