The 5 Littlest Cemeteries in Brooklyn
Old Gravesend Cemetery
This rarely opened graveyard on Gravesend Neck Road was founded in the mid-17th century; it’s believed to house the remains of the founder of Gravesend. “With its rickety headstones and old, crooked trees, the Gravesend Cemetery looks like something out of a Halloween horror movie,” reports NYCGo, “but it’s actually an historic site that dates back to 1643, when English Quakers decided to turn the land given to them by the governor of New Amsterdam into the community’s final resting place.” It’s parallel to another small graveyard: the van Sicklen Family Cemetery. [photo]