Millville Cemetery
Graves and chapel, 2010
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| Established | 1871 |
| Location | Millville, NY |
| Country | USA |
| Coordinates | 43°11′23″N 78°19′28″W / 43.18972°N 78.32444°W |
| Type | Private |
| Owned by | Millville Cemetery Association |
| Size | 7.5 acres (3.0 ha) |
| No. of graves | 197 |
| Find a Grave | Millville Cemetery |
Millville Cemetery is located on East Shelby Road (Orleans County Route 18) in Millville, New York, United States. It was established in 1871 as a rural cemetery, expanding on an early burial ground.
The cemetery is built on a small hill in an otherwise flat area. The landscape was manipulated to create a system of perimeter roads and plantings, characteristics that show an advanced understanding of the rural cemetery aesthetic by its unknown designer(s). Its focal point, near the top of the hill, is a small wooden chapel with a memorial vault in the basement.
Its monuments and funerary art, in a variety of styles, reflect the prosperity of Millville in the late 19th century. In 2007 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the second cemetery in the county with that distinction after Mount Albion Cemetery outside Albion.
The cemetery is a 7.5-acre (3.0 ha) parcel on the east side of West Shelby Road in the Town of Shelby, approximately one mile (1.6 km) south of Maple Ridge Road (NY 31A) at the hamlet of Millville, and a thousand feet (300 m) north of East Shelby's intersection with Martin and Wheeler roads. Medina, several miles to the northwest, is the nearest large settlement. The area is rural, with open worked fields and houses clustered near the road. The cemetery is built on a small hill that rises 30 feet (9.1 m) above the surrounding level terrain.
On the road side, the cemetery is delineated by a retaining wall of locally quarried red Medina sandstone in an ashlar pattern. At the center an ornate iron arch on brick piers with "Millville Cemetery" spelled out on top allows access to the narrow gravel road going up the hill. It is one of four that cross the cemetery east-west to a parallel gravel road in the rear. The plantings, primarily large evergreen trees, proceed in regular rows across the property.
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