Overlooking the Hudson River, the Old Town Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in the Hudson Valley.
People enjoy visiting the cemetery for many reasons.
It refreshes one's knowledge of history, and reminds one of the lives of well-known people. As a park, it has interesting monuments and tree specimens. The Old Town Cemetery was begun in 1713, about four years after the first German pioneers arrived. It predates the Glebe Patent of Newburgh issued in 1752, the incorporation of Newburgh as a village in 1800, and of course, the incorporation as a city in 1865. There are about 1,686 persons buried in the cemetery.