Town Linke Church and Cemetery
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Town Linke Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery
located at Cameron Mills
in Steuben County, New York
. It is a small frame building constructed in 1845 in a vernacular Greek Revival
style. A cemetery surrounds the church and contains upwards of 3,030 burials with markers dating to the 1830s.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2000.
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
located at Cameron Mills
Rathbone, New York
Rathbone is a town in Steuben County, New York, in the United States. The population was 1,080 at the 2000 census. The name comes from early settler, General Ransom Rathbone....
in Steuben County, New York
Steuben County, New York
Steuben County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 98,990. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a German general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War, though it is not pronounced the same...
. It is a small frame building constructed in 1845 in a vernacular Greek Revival
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...
style. A cemetery surrounds the church and contains upwards of 3,030 burials with markers dating to the 1830s.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2000.