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Drewsclift Cemetery

 
 
Drewsclift Cemetery Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Clifton Patrick, October 5, 2013
1. Drewsclift Cemetery Marker
Inscription. Daniel Drew, railroad and steamboat promoter, founder of Drew Seminary and University, builder of churches, buried here.
 
Erected 1930 by New York State Education Department.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Cemeteries & Burial Sites.
 
Location. 41° 22.384′ N, 73° 36.972′ W. Marker is in Carmel, New York, in Putnam County. It is on Deans Corner Rd 1.1 miles east of Brewster Ave (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 151 Deans Corner Rd, Carmel NY 10512, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York, specifically in the Hudson Valley, and in the New York City Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

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least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Brewster Soldiers Monument (approx. 1.3 miles away); Brewster Veterans Memorial (approx. 1½ miles away); The Borden Bridge (approx. 1.6 miles away); Birthplace of Darius M. Couch (approx. 2½ miles away); Hopkins Corners (approx. 2.7 miles away); Peach Pond Cemetery (approx. 2.8 miles away); North Salem World War I Memorial (approx. 3.2 miles away); June Cemetery (approx. 3.3 miles away).
 
Entrance to Drewsclift Cemetery. image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Clifton Patrick, October 5, 2013
2. Entrance to Drewsclift Cemetery.
Daniel Drew image. Click for full size.
Internet Archive
3. Daniel Drew
from: Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street by Henry Clews, 1887.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on October 7, 2022. It was originally submitted on October 9, 2013, by Clifton Patrick of Chester, NY, United States. This page has been viewed 1,117 times since then and 65 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on October 9, 2013, by Clifton Patrick of Chester, NY, United States.   3. submitted on October 5, 2022, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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Aug. 16, 2026