Trinity Church Cemetery
Videos
The parish of Trinity Church has three separate burial grounds associated with it in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The first, Trinity Churchyard, is located in Lower Manhattan at 74 Trinity
Trinity Churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street
A cenotaph marker erected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers honoring Robert Fulton at the Trinity Churchyard.
A gravemarker erected by the Corporation of Trinity Church for Alexander Hamilton.
Cross erected in 1893 by the New York Academy of Sciences in honor of John James Audubon.
John Jacob Astor IV
Videos
John Jacob Astor IV was an American business magnate, real estate developer, and investor who was a member of the Astor family and also the Livingston family. A writer, as well as a lieutenant colonel
Trinity Church Cemetery
…Cemetery and Mausoleum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the burial place of notable people including John James Audubon, John Jacob Astor IV, Mayor Edward I. Koch, Governor John Adams Dix, Ralph Ellison, and Eliza Jumel. In 1823, all burials south of Canal Street became forbidden by New York…
Astor in 1895
Astor and his second wife Madeleine Talmage Force
Ferncliff, the Astor family's country estate in Rhinebeck, New York
The New York Herald report of the sinking of Titanic. Most reports featured the Astors in the headlines.