Old Southeast Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Brewster, New York

( Marker is on New York State Route 22, 0.1 miles south of Dykeman Road (New York State Route 311), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1970

Oldest marked grave in Putnam County.

In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York. He was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz while attending the Pan-American Exposition.