The Graven Images of Bethel Cemetery — by Carl Oechsner, photographs by Howie Myers Source: https://www.crotonfriendsofhistory.org/the-graven-images-of-bethel-cemetery Bethel Cemetery is located in the virtual center of the village of Croton-on-Hudson, surrounded by schools, library and neighborhoods. Gravestones are America's earliest sculpture. Among early American artifacts they are unique in…

Freeborn Garretson preached in "the new church" on March 10, 1793. Francis Asbury, the first bishop of the Methodist Church in America (1784), preached at Bethel in 1795, 1812 and 1817. Summer camp meetings for Hudson Valley Methodists were first held in Carmel around 1804. In 1805, Croton Landing became the new site with hundreds attending week-long summer activities near today's Carrie E. Tompki…

He was captured in Tarrytown carrying plans of West Point. Andre was hanged in Tappan on October 2, 1780. The cannon sits in front of the Peekskill Museum. Sherwood is buried in Ossining's Sparta Cemetery. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) is buried at Bethel. She was an African-American playwright whose "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play written by an African-American woman produced on Broadwa…