Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken

Lake View Cemetery of Interlaken came about in 1847 when the Trustees of the Association voted to purchase one and a half acres of land from William Rappleye near the Baptist and a second group, mainly from the Reformed Dutch Church, formed the North Cemetery Association and purchased the property from Abram Ditmars. Many of the earlier burials from the Dutch Reformed church burying ground relocated to the new grounds, which were on the road north of the village connecting the main Ithaca to Geneva “turnpike” with the lakeshore area known as Morehouse landing. On June 23, 1849, the North Cemetery Association of Farmerville purchased an additional portion of lot 34 from Abram Ditmars, thereby doubling the size of their cemetery. These first two purchases form much of the area of Lake View Cemetery along the front fence. On December 2, 1861, the Trustees of the Farmerville Rural Cemetery Association sold the original 1.5 acres from the South Cemetery Association, lot 50, back to William Rappleye. At the March 1865 Annual meeting, it resolved that the Association purchase an additional five acres from Abram Ditmars. This purchase occurred on February 12, 1866. This purchase defined the maximum size of Lake View Cemetery until 1994. After three successive ballots, at the annual meeting for the years 1874, 1875, and March 8, 1876, the name of the cemetery were changed to Lake View Cemetery Association. A final name change made in May 1908 whereby the Association would be known as the Lake View Cemetery Association of Interlaken, New York.