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New York City's Old Calvary Cemetery was established on the north side of Newtown Creek in an area then called Blissville (known today as Woodside); the first burial there was in August 1848. This book contains 5,315 transcriptions of headstones in the ce

"Present day Calvary's 365 acres are comprised of four divisions named in remembrance of the ancient catacombs in the City of Rome. Old or First Calvary is known as the St. Callistus Division; Second Calvary is known as the St. Agnes Division; Third Calvary and Fourth Calvary are respectively St. Sebastian and St. Domitilla Divisions."--Page xi.