Rose Cemetery is located in a farmer's field, midway between Mott Lane and Edgar Avenue, about one third of a mile south of Beaver Dam Road. It is reached by a cart path, and measures approximately 35' by 50'. It once contained about twenty-five graves, but some were moved to Oaklawn Cemetery in 1873 when that cemetery opened [incorrect, Oaklawn Cemetery opened in 1890.] Many of the gravestones are now broken. Only a half dozen remain standing.

The Rose family were the first to settle and farm on Beaver Dam Road. It was largely through their efforts that Beaver Dam Road was created a road by the early town fathers (1735). The cemetery lies behind the site of an early Rose house, now gone. Two officers of the Revolutionary War, both Roses, lie buried here. Other graves of early nineteenth century residents are record of the Rose family who passed out of influence by the 1840s.

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Cemetery Book, Town Historian's Office, Port Jefferson, N.Y., compiled in the 1930's.

The Rose Cemetery has been slowly eroded in size by farming of the area, but was recently fenced by the Town, through the efforts of the Brookhaven Village Association Cemetery Committee

Ellen Williams, research assistant