Fort Golgotha and the Old Burial Hill Cemetery is the site of an historic cemetery, officially known as the "Old Burying Ground",[2] and the location of a former Revolutionary War-era fort, known as Fort Golgotha, at Main Street (NY 25A) and Nassau Road in Huntington, New York.
[3][4] The fort, which takes its name from Golgotha, was built by the King's American Dragoons in 1782[5] on orders of Colonel Benjamin Thompson, commander of the regiment,[6] on the site of the town burial ground.
The nearby Presbyterian Church was dismantled, and its timbers used in the fort's construction.
After all British forces withdrew from the region in 1783, the fort was dismantled, the burial grounds restored and the Presbyterian Church rebuilt.
[8] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.