Located adjacent to the SUNY Plattsburgh campus, this is the final resting place of many of Plattsburgh's earliest settlers. I was here to find the grave of Zephaniah Platt (1735 - 1807) was a community founder and settled the village in 1785. He was a member of the US Constitutional Convention of 1776, a State Senator, a judge, an originator of the Erie Canal and a Regent of the State University.
The oldest documented year of death on a stone is that of Maria Louise Eleonore, aged 31, the first wife of early settler Peter Sailly, who died December 23, 1786, leaving a son and three daughters.
There are also Revolutionary War veterans and casualties from the War of 1812 Battle of Plattsburgh.
Note: You will want to arrive from Broad Street. You can't access the cemetery easily from the south.
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