History: Incorporated 1841
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Cold Springs Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Lockport in Niagara County, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
A lovely example of a Victorian rural cemetery, Cold Springs Cemetery was crucial in the development of the City and Town of Lockport, New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thus making Cold Springs the oldest cemetery in the city and town of Lockport.
The funerary art consists of uninscribed headstones to beautiful family settings surrounded by cast iron fences as well as mausoleums. There are outstanding historic monuments of various styles, sizes and
materials. The current 50 acres of rolling, beautiful and naturally landscaped terraine (including a variety of flowering shrubs, flower beds, mature trees and carefully tended graves), originally began during the War of 1812. A small detachment of soldiers from the U. S. Arsenal at Batavia were en-route to the Niagara Frontier. They camped at the Cold Springs which still trickles pure and cold down in the hollow and through the acreage. On the hill above near where the gate to Cold Springs is now located there was a log tavern kept by Charles Wilbur. Whether the 12 soldiers who died there that day over-indulged in whiskey or whether they had some fatal malady will probably never be known. They were buried on the hill above the Cold Springs and their unmarked graves became the nucleus around which other burials were made by settlers in the area. The first civilian burial began in 1815.
The Laid Up Stone Wall on the Cold Springs Road entrance side of the cemetery was built by James D. Shuler with stones from his quarry. This wall is still in perfect condition and has never needed repair.
Around 1842 interested citizens recognized the potential for a rural cemetery plan – it was to rival the famous Mt. Auburn in Boston and Mt. Hope in Rochester.
This resting place of many Niagara County’s most famous residents includes:
Birdsall Holley 1820-1894 – Inventor
Jessie Hawley – Proponent of the Erie Canal System was by trade a Flour Merchant
Charlotte Cross – Educator
Cuthbert W. Pound, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1932
to 1934. Brother of John E. Pound.
Edward Chase – whose brother was Secretary of Treasury under Abraham Lincoln - Chase was noted for his stone mansion on High and Washburn Streets
Lyman Spalding 1811 - 1864 and Joel McCollum (one of the first developers in lowertown) – both local Entrepreneurs
James Shuler – Stonemason and Quarry owner (building of the stone wall at Cold Springs Cemetery)
Many, many others – including those near and dear to you
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A lovely example of a Victorian rural cemetery, Cold Springs Cemetery was crucial in the development of the City and Town of Lockport, New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thus making Cold Springs the oldest cemetery in the city and town of Lockport.
The funerary art consists of uninscribed headstones to beautiful family settings surrounded by cast iron fences as well as mausoleums. There are outstanding historic monuments of various styles, sizes and
materials. The current 50 acres of rolling, beautiful and naturally landscaped terraine (including a variety of flowering shrubs, flower beds, mature trees and carefully tended graves), originally began during the War of 1812. A small detachment of soldiers from the U. S. Arsenal at Batavia were en-route to the Niagara Frontier. They camped at the Cold Springs which still trickles pure and cold down in the hollow and through the acreage. On the hill above near where the gate to Cold Springs is now located there was a log tavern kept by Charles Wilbur. Whether the 12 soldiers who died there that day over-indulged in whiskey or whether they had some fatal malady will probably never be known. They were buried on the hill above the Cold Springs and their unmarked graves became the nucleus around which other burials were made by settlers in the area. The first civilian burial began in 1815.
The Laid Up Stone Wall on the Cold Springs Road entrance side of the cemetery was built by James D. Shuler with stones from his quarry. This wall is still in perfect condition and has never needed repair.
Around 1842 interested citizens recognized the potential for a rural cemetery plan – it was to rival the famous Mt. Auburn in Boston and Mt. Hope in Rochester.
This resting place of many Niagara County’s most famous residents includes:
Birdsall Holley 1820-1894 – Inventor
Jessie Hawley – Proponent of the Erie Canal System was by trade a Flour Merchant
Charlotte Cross – Educator
Cuthbert W. Pound, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1932
to 1934. Brother of John E. Pound.
Edward Chase – whose brother was Secretary of Treasury under Abraham Lincoln - Chase was noted for his stone mansion on High and Washburn Streets
Lyman Spalding 1811 - 1864 and Joel McCollum (one of the first developers in lowertown) – both local Entrepreneurs
James Shuler – Stonemason and Quarry owner (building of the stone wall at Cold Springs Cemetery)
Many, many others – including those near and dear to you
See also "Stories in History" under the more...section of these pages.