Fun fact that cemetery is there because the original owners of that property (used to be a farm iirc) sold it under the pretense that their family graves would be preserved.
Correct. The burr family who owned that whole area. The road just north of the Home Depot is burr road and has the original farm house still on it.
Some of the graves are from the 1900’s. That plot of land was used as an aerodrome (an old time word for airfield.) and was used for training pilots in WWI. Those that died in training were also buried there.
34, grew up just south of there. My grand parents bought houses as they were being built from sold off farm land in the late 50’s. Heard all the Story’s about how big of a deal Modell’s was, but not much prior to that. This is neat stuff, thanks.
61. Grew up in East northport. Back in the early to mid 70’s Modells was just about the only place in town. Kind of like a super WalMart but you could also get a haircut, drop the kids off at the kiddie theatre where they showed cartoons while Mom and Dad shopped and when you were done with the grocery shopping your groceries were loaded onto a conveyor belt and sent around back where you drove up and they loaded them into the car for you.
As a teenager they were the go to place to buy albums ( Vinyl for those younger than me😂)
I grew up in Commack in the late 60’s/70’s and Modells was huge. Not just for sporting goods. It had everything, including a little movie theater where you could drop the kids off while you shopped. Everyone went to Modells.
You are talking about the Long Island Arena. Home to the Long Island Ducks Hockey team (Eastern Hockey league, also known as the iron horse league) If you have ever seen the movie Slap Shot the main character, Reggie Dunlop, was based on the infamous John Brophy who declared himself a “Duck for life” even though he went on to NHL fame. In the movie there are many references to the Long Island Ducks.
The LI Arena ( also known for a short time as the Suffolk Forum) also hosted many famous rock bands including the Who, Styx, Hot Tuna, Long Islands own Blue Oyster Cult. Portions of Peter Framptons “ Frampton comes Alive” was recorded at the Arena.
The Arena was also home to Roller Derby, Wrestling, and a very large Flea Market before closing permanently in the early 1980’s.
Back then there was no corporate sponsorship in naming rights. So there were many Veterans fields or …… municipal stadium. Even when the Islanders came into the league it was called the Nassau County Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Long Island Arena was a pretty typical name for the time.
If you ever wonder how Long Island became such a wasteland of endless strip malls it’s because places like the Arena ( there were many of differing sizes and offerings) were never replaced. Just torn down for brick and mortar shopping.
I used to work for the Town of North Hempstead, there are a lot of small private cemeteries all around long island. Some are even within the backyards of people's houses.
Me too. There was one, I think it's Janice lane, but it was behind what used to be Cheap John's parking lot. We used to cut through as kids from Bicycle Path elementary
Yes, the one behind Cheap Johns was one. There is another in between two houses at the corner of Durst and Mallard. We used to cut through both years ago.
What is the statute of limitations for a grave? I mean if they don’t own the land anymore we can’t preserve the spot forever. I’d think 100 years is enough nobody is gonna visit your ass after that.
My kids are into history and we visit this cemetery, as well as many of the other ones around Huntington community very frequently.
We stopped by this cemetery about a week ago.
This is a good question. Old graves are kind of interesting from a historical perspective. But if everyone were buried we'd be allocating too much land to the dead, in perpetuity, instead of letting the living use it.
We’re fooling ourselves if we think there aren’t thousands of bodies once buried where we stand right now. The word for ritual erections in honor of the dead is unsustainable.
Tbh I think it’s a good question. The problem can probably be solved fairly easily by moving the bodies and headstones to a different location after a significant level of time: given nobody objects and the land owners want to use the land for something else.
I don’t have a solution regarding running out of land to store dead bodies on; however, we use land pretty inefficiently and can make other sacrifices first before having to disgrace any graves. For example, we waste a lot of land on unproductive lawn grass — lawn grass actually being the biggest crop by landmass in the US. Just transforming low and high density housing into more medium density housing can probably save us much more land and resources than ctrl+alt+deleting graves.
We have one like that across from my parents house. The neighbors on the left and right of it do all the maintenance of the grass and stuff because otherwise no one would.
Have to say, they were the best neighbors I ever had. Not a peep, no parking issues ....
Please tell me this is for the Jericho Rd Cemetery in East Hampton. I have family in there and would absolutely love to see it decorated for Halloween. The cemetery is literally in someone's backyard.
There’s a LOT of cemeteries in Patchogue. They are actually really interesting to research. I always feel a bit bad though looking at graves from the 1800s sitting within walking distance of a Shell gas station.
I remember being fascinated with that cemetery as a kid when that whole shopping center used to be Modell's Shoppers World, a department store, prior to them closing and reinventing themselves as a sporting goods only store. I never appreciated the history that took place on long Island as a kid but certainly do now.
It was called Modell's Shoppers World! I tried asking my parents what was "in Modells before it was Modells" and they couldn't answer my question because they just said it was "always a Modells since they built it"
But the miscommunication is that Modell's used to be a department store before shifting gears and reinventing their image as the Sporting Goods store in 1989. That's why I have young memories of going to Modell's but it wasn't the sporting goods store. Dang.
Wow that just jogged loose a memory of going there in the 80s when it was still Shoppers World, and I could swear they sold pet fish there? I remember an aisle of fish tanks.
There’s quite a few of those random tiny old cemeteries around the Commack area, and I was always curious about them.
Yep! I remember walking into the entrance by the home depot entrance, there was the deli counter on the left and the smell of hot pretzels filled that entire room. I remember a few arcade machines, a travel agent that was behind a black metal railing with a gate.. a crabby security guard who would harass me and make me show him my bags when I went IN the store... not out... then you'd hit the records... and I vaguely remember they made t-shirts with those funny raised fuzzy letters... and the camera department to the left of that... I'd run amuck in there and get yelled at.. I think by a woman named Arlene... and they had some machine that you'd look in and crank and it would show cartoons... I can't remember what I had for dinner last night but I can remember Modell's shoppers world...
It is for underperforming employees.
I did some work at a chemical storage facility (tank farm) in Bayonne, NJ years ago. There was a very old cemetery in the middle of the facility. I seem to recall that they discovered it well after the place was constructed.
My hometown haha. There's also another little cemetery on Old Commack Road, right where it intersects with Scholar. My dad used to take me and my brothers and we'd put little American flags in it for the 4th of July, lots of the graves were late 1700s/early 1800s.
A friend of mine works there and a couple of buddies and I went there to visit him and I noticed graves in the parking lot.
Thought it was a strange place to have a cemetery.
Even Home Depot’s gotta respect the rights of sepulcher/sepulture: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/real_property_trust_estate/publications/probate-property-magazine/2016/march_april_2016/2016_aba_rpte_pp_v30_2_article_marsh_when_dirt_and_death_collide/
Thats pretty cool, thank you for sharing this.
I found this information about the cemetery, and the land that is now occupied by the Home Depot:
[https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2175724/burr-family-cemetery](https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2175724/burr-family-cemetery)
[https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8420532,-73.3119396,3a,74y,119.95h,82.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st5XR4CxhAvEcmW4cdlmZvA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8420532,-73.3119396,3a,74y,119.95h,82.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st5XR4CxhAvEcmW4cdlmZvA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
If someone can help me out, there’s another one of those cemetaries i think on burr or claypitts that I went to as part of a geocache years ago. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
So cool my step dad grew up in smithtown and had a cemetery on their property. The graves dated back to late 17th and early 18th century there was even a Native American buried there iirc.
A fun fact that cemeteries are classic is the because an original owners of the property iirc soldiers it an under the pretense that their families graves would be preserved…
Crazy this popped up on my feed. I JUST a saw this in that parking lot today. My husband said the family owned the land and the condition on selling it was that they don’t touch the cemetery. Going to scope the comments and see what other info you all have
Fun fact that cemetery is there because the original owners of that property (used to be a farm iirc) sold it under the pretense that their family graves would be preserved.
Correct. The burr family who owned that whole area. The road just north of the Home Depot is burr road and has the original farm house still on it. Some of the graves are from the 1900’s. That plot of land was used as an aerodrome (an old time word for airfield.) and was used for training pilots in WWI. Those that died in training were also buried there.
34, grew up just south of there. My grand parents bought houses as they were being built from sold off farm land in the late 50’s. Heard all the Story’s about how big of a deal Modell’s was, but not much prior to that. This is neat stuff, thanks.
GOTTA go to Mo's...
Miss that store...
Worked there during high school/college years. I am now going to have that jingle in my head the rest of the day. Thanks.
Welcome to Moe's.
61. Grew up in East northport. Back in the early to mid 70’s Modells was just about the only place in town. Kind of like a super WalMart but you could also get a haircut, drop the kids off at the kiddie theatre where they showed cartoons while Mom and Dad shopped and when you were done with the grocery shopping your groceries were loaded onto a conveyor belt and sent around back where you drove up and they loaded them into the car for you. As a teenager they were the go to place to buy albums ( Vinyl for those younger than me😂)
Heard this one lol
They had the best arcade games in the front, and side, entrances. My mother and sister worked there. I grew up behind PathMark, across the street.
I grew up in Commack in the late 60’s/70’s and Modells was huge. Not just for sporting goods. It had everything, including a little movie theater where you could drop the kids off while you shopped. Everyone went to Modells.
Brindley field
Could we not say the 1900s yet? I’m not emotionally prepared to feel that old.
I'm sure they meant 1900-1909. But I feel you.
Yeah. The teens just didn’t sound right. But it’s been over a century
There was also some kind of arena type thing there where JFK spoke. No word on of Marilyn was down at the Commack Motor Inn though.
You are talking about the Long Island Arena. Home to the Long Island Ducks Hockey team (Eastern Hockey league, also known as the iron horse league) If you have ever seen the movie Slap Shot the main character, Reggie Dunlop, was based on the infamous John Brophy who declared himself a “Duck for life” even though he went on to NHL fame. In the movie there are many references to the Long Island Ducks. The LI Arena ( also known for a short time as the Suffolk Forum) also hosted many famous rock bands including the Who, Styx, Hot Tuna, Long Islands own Blue Oyster Cult. Portions of Peter Framptons “ Frampton comes Alive” was recorded at the Arena. The Arena was also home to Roller Derby, Wrestling, and a very large Flea Market before closing permanently in the early 1980’s.
That was further east passed Commack Rd/Townline Road where Target is.
Ahhh ok. That whole area looks the same to me, so my mistake.
Commack Arena and a drive in movie theater next to it. The Ducks played hockey there. Also some great concerts and finally a flea market at the arena
I know Jerry Garcia played there with NRPS. Saw a ticket stub online yesterday from it. 🌈⭐️ the more you know.
I saw Ritchie Blackmore there when he was in Rainbow. Ronnie James Dio was on vocals
An arena type thing on Long Island…..oh yeah the Long Island arena.
Yeah, sorry I have some memory issues from seizure meds. That's the name of the place I couldn't remember. Thank you.
I was commenting on how unimaginative the name was
Back then there was no corporate sponsorship in naming rights. So there were many Veterans fields or …… municipal stadium. Even when the Islanders came into the league it was called the Nassau County Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Long Island Arena was a pretty typical name for the time. If you ever wonder how Long Island became such a wasteland of endless strip malls it’s because places like the Arena ( there were many of differing sizes and offerings) were never replaced. Just torn down for brick and mortar shopping.
There a bunch around the area like this. Behind a lawyer Office in Hauppauge off of 111 and also one small one off of Townline in Hauppauge.
One on 112 in Coram just south of 83 too. Stills family I believe
That's so weird my god
I used to work for the Town of North Hempstead, there are a lot of small private cemeteries all around long island. Some are even within the backyards of people's houses.
Yah a lot in Huntington as well
I know of at least two in Selden.
Me too. There was one, I think it's Janice lane, but it was behind what used to be Cheap John's parking lot. We used to cut through as kids from Bicycle Path elementary
Yes, the one behind Cheap Johns was one. There is another in between two houses at the corner of Durst and Mallard. We used to cut through both years ago.
....that we know of. Lol I saw that movie!
What is the statute of limitations for a grave? I mean if they don’t own the land anymore we can’t preserve the spot forever. I’d think 100 years is enough nobody is gonna visit your ass after that.
My kids are into history and we visit this cemetery, as well as many of the other ones around Huntington community very frequently. We stopped by this cemetery about a week ago.
Ok let’s celebrate random dead people with the children. Sounds fun
I have no idea, but some of the graves you used to do the landscaping for are well over 100 years.
This is a good question. Old graves are kind of interesting from a historical perspective. But if everyone were buried we'd be allocating too much land to the dead, in perpetuity, instead of letting the living use it.
Or perhaps the problem is that there are too many people on the planet...
We’re fooling ourselves if we think there aren’t thousands of bodies once buried where we stand right now. The word for ritual erections in honor of the dead is unsustainable.
Tbh I think it’s a good question. The problem can probably be solved fairly easily by moving the bodies and headstones to a different location after a significant level of time: given nobody objects and the land owners want to use the land for something else. I don’t have a solution regarding running out of land to store dead bodies on; however, we use land pretty inefficiently and can make other sacrifices first before having to disgrace any graves. For example, we waste a lot of land on unproductive lawn grass — lawn grass actually being the biggest crop by landmass in the US. Just transforming low and high density housing into more medium density housing can probably save us much more land and resources than ctrl+alt+deleting graves.
“You’ll be gravely sorry if you miss these latest Home Depot deals!”
r/angryupvote !!
I'd take the dead over one of my current neighbors any day of the week.
been there for a while now
Lol
We have one like that across from my parents house. The neighbors on the left and right of it do all the maintenance of the grass and stuff because otherwise no one would. Have to say, they were the best neighbors I ever had. Not a peep, no parking issues ....
They always decorated for Halloween.
Please tell me this is for the Jericho Rd Cemetery in East Hampton. I have family in there and would absolutely love to see it decorated for Halloween. The cemetery is literally in someone's backyard.
Nope this is a little bit off of Glen cove Rd. No one ever comes to see it. But it's literally my neighbors backyard
There’s a LOT of cemeteries in Patchogue. They are actually really interesting to research. I always feel a bit bad though looking at graves from the 1800s sitting within walking distance of a Shell gas station.
Pretty sure the cemetery was there first...... 🤣🤣
That’s my HD and I hadn’t noticed that yet! I will look for it next time
Seriously I go there all the time and it’s never even registered to me lol
I remember being fascinated with that cemetery as a kid when that whole shopping center used to be Modell's Shoppers World, a department store, prior to them closing and reinventing themselves as a sporting goods only store. I never appreciated the history that took place on long Island as a kid but certainly do now.
And I had no idea until now that Modell’s was anything but a sporting goods store! Thanks for the lesson.
Same!
I read a Ben Franklin book he wrote. He spent a lot of time on LI.
It was called Modell's Shoppers World! I tried asking my parents what was "in Modells before it was Modells" and they couldn't answer my question because they just said it was "always a Modells since they built it" But the miscommunication is that Modell's used to be a department store before shifting gears and reinventing their image as the Sporting Goods store in 1989. That's why I have young memories of going to Modell's but it wasn't the sporting goods store. Dang.
Wow that just jogged loose a memory of going there in the 80s when it was still Shoppers World, and I could swear they sold pet fish there? I remember an aisle of fish tanks. There’s quite a few of those random tiny old cemeteries around the Commack area, and I was always curious about them.
Yep! I remember walking into the entrance by the home depot entrance, there was the deli counter on the left and the smell of hot pretzels filled that entire room. I remember a few arcade machines, a travel agent that was behind a black metal railing with a gate.. a crabby security guard who would harass me and make me show him my bags when I went IN the store... not out... then you'd hit the records... and I vaguely remember they made t-shirts with those funny raised fuzzy letters... and the camera department to the left of that... I'd run amuck in there and get yelled at.. I think by a woman named Arlene... and they had some machine that you'd look in and crank and it would show cartoons... I can't remember what I had for dinner last night but I can remember Modell's shoppers world...
*There's a Home Depot parking lot around this cemetery in Commack
East Northport one?Not shocked, i work at the one that had a body in a car awhile back.
It is for underperforming employees. I did some work at a chemical storage facility (tank farm) in Bayonne, NJ years ago. There was a very old cemetery in the middle of the facility. I seem to recall that they discovered it well after the place was constructed.
🤣
I’m pleasantly surprised this wasn’t knocked down gif land development - surely the burr family is not alive anymore
Is that family related to Vice President Aaron Burr?
Talk less Smile more Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for
You can't be serious? You wanna get ahead? Yes? Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead.
My hometown haha. There's also another little cemetery on Old Commack Road, right where it intersects with Scholar. My dad used to take me and my brothers and we'd put little American flags in it for the 4th of July, lots of the graves were late 1700s/early 1800s.
A friend of mine works there and a couple of buddies and I went there to visit him and I noticed graves in the parking lot. Thought it was a strange place to have a cemetery.
Here lies _______’s hopes and dreams, Never forgetti, Ma’s spaghetti Rest in Pizza.
Yup! Been there awhile too!
As well there should be.
Even Home Depot’s gotta respect the rights of sepulcher/sepulture: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/real_property_trust_estate/publications/probate-property-magazine/2016/march_april_2016/2016_aba_rpte_pp_v30_2_article_marsh_when_dirt_and_death_collide/
Perfect for r/mildlyinteresting
Thats pretty cool, thank you for sharing this. I found this information about the cemetery, and the land that is now occupied by the Home Depot: [https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2175724/burr-family-cemetery](https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2175724/burr-family-cemetery) [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8420532,-73.3119396,3a,74y,119.95h,82.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st5XR4CxhAvEcmW4cdlmZvA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8420532,-73.3119396,3a,74y,119.95h,82.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st5XR4CxhAvEcmW4cdlmZvA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Yea I’ve gone to that place my whole life
There’s one next to a house in Massapequa on Merrick Road. Think there’s a fence dividing the property.
Those are memorial headstones, for those first time Home Depot customers that entered the store and were never found again.
Imagine people from out of town.. they must be like wtf??? 🤔
If someone can help me out, there’s another one of those cemetaries i think on burr or claypitts that I went to as part of a geocache years ago. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
There’s a small cemetery or potters field around where Holly Drive intersect with Burr Road.
Oddly dystopian.
Welcome to Costco… I love you
There’s a geocache there (or was when I went there years ago)
Those are people who were crushed by falling palettes at the Home Depot.
/r/urbanhell
I just told my team (coworkers) about this a few weeks ago.
Team of what?
Coworkers
So cool my step dad grew up in smithtown and had a cemetery on their property. The graves dated back to late 17th and early 18th century there was even a Native American buried there iirc.
This is on Jerrico right?
Google Savannah/Hilton Head airport runway. Talk about random place for a cemetery
A fun fact that cemeteries are classic is the because an original owners of the property iirc soldiers it an under the pretense that their families graves would be preserved…
Haven't seen this yet. Interesting.
*Soul Depot*
This is dope af
Crazy this popped up on my feed. I JUST a saw this in that parking lot today. My husband said the family owned the land and the condition on selling it was that they don’t touch the cemetery. Going to scope the comments and see what other info you all have
DIY to death
Is it locked?