So after the discussion at Thursday night's TIGS meeting, I went looking to read up on the Nail Factory cemetery. I'm always finding things I missed before on the TIGS website! Does anyone know the location of the cross or road pictured on this TIGS page? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/NailFactoryCemetery/NailFactoryCemeteryIntro.htm More history http://www.hoxsie.org/2013/05/the-nail-factory-cemetery.html And map http://tinyurl.com/kkrhdkl Two maps, one noted by Chris P from NYPL at http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-68ab-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 and this one http://tinyurl.com/kwz9sm9 show the location of a cemetery to north of the former monastery. Is this the area planned for the HVCC dormitory construction? Time for a walk in the woods, anyone?

On Aug 23, 2014, at 3:35 AM, Christine Connell <christine.connell@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know the location of the cross or road pictured on this TIGS page? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/NailFactoryCemetery/NailFactoryCemeteryIntro.htm The cross is on the north side of a dirt road starting from Vandenburgh Avenue south of Lark Street and traveling west. Even though it’s flat on the ground, it’s impossible to miss since it’s over seven feet in size. On the 1858 and 1861 maps, the cemetery was south of a road traveling west from Vandenburgh Avenue. If the road that exists now is the same as the old one on the map, the cross would seem to be outside of the cemetery. I suspected the cross was associated with the monastery, which is what I think Kathy said as well. On the 1881 map the road dead ends at the east side of the cemetery. It’s hard to know how accurate the maps were. At one time there seems to have been a map of the cemetery itself by “B. Turner.” 1858 map http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-4f37-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 1861 map http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/service/gmd/gmd380/g3803/g3803r/la000546.jp2 1881 map http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-68ab-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 articles about the cemetery https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfZThYNGdoX0djNzg/edit?usp=sharing Aside from the HVCC dorms, there’s also a sign about the monastery property being the “Future Home of the Energy Efficiency & Sustainability Programs Training Lab.” It would be nice to see a map of the footprints for those and their parking lots, etc. Chris