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
Lane & Lang Family Plots
Putnam Valley, NY
| Current Status: | Inactive |
| Description: | Three separate yards are separated by stone walls. Two are surrounded by dry set stone walls in poor condition. One has a gate and newer mortared stone wall. Each section is approximately 30' wide and 40-50' long. |
| GPS: | N41• 20.474; W073• 48.358 |
| Location: | On a high bank on the east side of a large curve on Indian Hill Road, about 30' back from the highway. |
| How To Access: | Via Danner property. Path entrance is right on the curve by a group of maple saplings. |
| Tax Map No.: | 85.-1.31 |
| Owner of Record: | Danner |
| Size & Use of Lane: | Less than 1/4 acre. 8 gravestones. 2 family names. |
| Size & Use of Lang: | Less than 1/4 acre. 17 gravestones. 2 family names. |
| Earliest Gravestone in Lane Plot: | 1806, George Lane. |
| Earliest Gravestone in Lang Plot: | 1807, Letitia Lang |
| Most Prominent: | Two Revolutionary War veterans are buried in the Lane Family Plot; One Revolutionary War veteran is buried in the Lang Plot. |
| Current Condition: | Poor. Lots of dead fall; the few visible head and footstones have been moved. Significant deterioration between visits in 2007 and 2009. Many stones are missing, others broken. Massive desecration has taken place. |
| Maintained By: | No apparent maintenance |
| Repairs Needed: | Clean up of deadfall; removal of saplings; repair and resetting of remaining stones; reset stone walls. |
| Troy #: | 5G & 5H |
"Stones listed here were copied more than 50 years ago with the exception of the Queen stone in the Lang plot which the compiler found. This stone may have been brought from another site." Reference: Buys pp. 114-115.
The Lane and Lang plots are "side-by-side on a very high bank on the east side of a large curve, abouyt 30' back from the highway." - Buys. "The Lane graves lie just above the road which runs over the top of 'Indian Hill,' and are almost at the highest point of the road. Indian Hill lies just to the back of Lake Osciola in Westchester County. The best way to reach the place would be to take the train to Mahopac Lake and drive over to Mahopac Falls. Then drive about four mile along a road called Wood Street, and turn up the road to the right, just beyond a farm belonging to a man named Joel Conklin. This road runs over the top of Indian Hill. The graves of Zebedee Kirkum, etc. lie on the right as you go along Wood Street, and are on the way from Mahopac Falls to the Lane plot. They lie in the midst of a thicket in what is know as the 'old Horton Place.' The tops of them can be seen as one drives along the road." - Stokes.
References: Stokes; Buys p. 114
Lane Family Plot [5G]
Click on a name below for photo of headstone and location in cemetary.
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Lang Family Plot [5H]
Click on a name below for photo of headstone and location in cemetary.