Middle Village Cemetery - East Springfield, NY
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 42° 50.181 W 074° 50.033
18T E 513576 N 4742655
Also called First Baptist Cemetery, and Town Ground Cemetery
Waymark Code: WMK0NX
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2014
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County of cemetery: Otsego County
Number of graves: 615
Location of cemetery: Van Alstine Rd., ¼ mile N. of US 20
Earliest burial: June 8, 1780
Last burial: October 18, 1962
Location of Marker: US-20 & Van Alstine Rd., between Sharon Springs & Richland Springs.
Marker Text:
FIRST CHURCH
in Springfield,
and first Baptist Church west of Hudson Valley 1787,
used by all denominations and for town-meetings
Church, I am told by locals, was just to the right of the flag.
No one could give me a year when the church was removed.
Springfield today is no more than a Presbyterian Church on the highway (US-20) and five or six farm houses.
The marker is on US-20, and directs you about a ¼ mile north to the cemetery.
Locals told me it now is limited use. Meaning, if a close family member is already there, then you can be buried there. Otherwise interments have ceased.