Roslyn Cemetery
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Roslyn Cemetery is a cemetery located in the village of Roslyn, in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island.
The cemetery office was a toll house for the Long Island Motor Parkway, a concrete highway that extended from Queens to Ronkonkoma, and is considered to be the nation's first modern highway.
[edit] Notable interments
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy
- William Cullen Bryant, poet and jouranlist, lived in Roslyn
- Christopher Morley, poet and journalist, lived in Roslyn
- Stephen Taber, a United States Congressman from New York from 1865-1869
