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The cemetery is north of 46th Avenue between 164th Street and 165th Street. During the 1930’s, the cemetery was converted into the Everett P. Martin Field, a playground. The cemetery is identified as the Colored Cemetery of Flushing on pages 42-43 of The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries, Carolee Inskeep, Ancestry Publishing (Orem, Utah) © 2000.

Timeline

 * 1840: Paupers' Burial Ground – formed in 1840 when the Town of Flushing purchased land from the Bowne family for a public cemetery for victims of the cholera epedimic. It was used for about 12 years, and again beginning around 1881 for African and Native Americans. It closed in 1898 with an estimated 500 to 1000 burials. The Queens Department of Parks acquired the property in 1914.
 * 1931: Martin's Field – renamed in honor of Everett Philo Martin (1854–1934), a conservationist, who campaigned to have it cleaned up.
 * 2009: The Old Town of Flushing Burial Ground

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