Putnam Valley
Adams Corners
Barrett
Baxter
Entrott
Hadden
Horton
King David/Rose Hills
Lane/Lang
Lawson
Post
Selleck
Tompkins Corners
Travis/Bryant Hill
Wood Street
Tompkins Corners Cemetery (a.k.a. Carmel Valley Burial Ground and Peekskill Hollow Cemetery)
Putnam Valley, NY
| Current Status: | Active |
| Description: | A public cemetery still in use. |
| GPS: | |
| Location: | North of Tompkins Corners, just past the Taconic Parkway, on the east side of Peekskill Hollow Road (bordered to the south by Peekskill Hollowbrook) |
| How To Access: | From Peekskill Hollow Road |
| Tax Map No.: | Putnam Valley 52-3-66 |
| Owner of Record: | Cemetery |
| Size & Use: | About 4 acres. More than 200 gravestones. |
| Earliest Gravestone: | 1829, Nathaniel Tompkins |
| Most Prominent: | Two Revolutionary War veterans are buried here. |
| Current Condition: | Good. As a result of the anonymous donation for restoration and maintenance of this cemetery, a two-day workshop was held. Since then, Manny has done an incredible job of restoring and resetting many of the stones. The improvement is remarkable. There are some dead or overgrown shrubs. |
| Maintained By: | Town of Putnam Valley. Contact Sue Manno or Town Clerk at Town Hall. |
| Repairs Needed: | Complete cleaning, restoring and resetting stones. Clean up and remove overgrowth and saplings along the perimeter. Remove dead and uncared for shrubs and plants in new and old sections. Remove burberry bushes; trim or remove other growth in the old section. There may be some gravestones in come clumps of shrubs. |
| Troy #: | 5L |
The cemetery was incorporated May 4, 1853 as Carmel Valley Burial Ground Association (now defunct). A meeting was held at the home of William M. Hadden. Fourteen trustees were elected, eleven of which are buried in Tompkins Corners Cemetery: Barthalemew Tompkins, Isaac Hulse, Hiram Adams, Isaac S. Austin, William Hadden, Robert Barker, Ebaneser Lockwood, Daninel Lockwood, John Hulse, Titus Sackrider, Samual Christian. The following trustees are buried elsewhere: Ira Conklin, Moses Hadden, Norman Travis.
The cemetery name was later changed to Peekskill Hollow Cemetery, and then again to Tompkins Corners Cemetery. "Carmel Valley" was a stretch of land on the east side of the creek through Peekskill Hollow. It was formerly in the Town of Carmel, and transferred to Putnam Valley in 1861 by request of its residents; see Pelletreau, p. 732.
The cemetery is in two sections. The old section is to the right side of the car path that goes through to the back. The new section is to the left. This section is still used for burials. Many of the stones in the old section were down, broken, or hard to read, though beginning in 2009 efforts have begun to conserve the old stones (through an anonymous grant).
Carmel Valley, a stretch of land on the east side of the creek through Peekskill Hollow, was formerly in the Town of Carmel, and transferred to Putnam Valley in 1861 by request of its residents; see Pelletreau, p. 732. In that connection, Carmel Valley Cemetery is in the Town of Putnam Valley, on the east side of Peekskill Hollow Road, and now known as the Peekskill Hollow Cemetery.
References: (Buys p. 101)
Cemetery Layout
Looking at the cemetery from the road (with your back to Peekskill Hollow Road):
- Rows run from left to right (North to South)
Row#1 at the front of the cemetery to Row #17 at the back near the brook) - Areas run from front to back (West to East)
Area #1 next to the car path on the far left to Area #20 at the stone wall to the far right.
In the front left there is a very large stone memorializing Robert Hunt. This grave is in Row 3, Area 2
Click on a name below for photo of headstone and location in cemetary.