Queens, New York: General Slocum Disaster Memorial and Mass Grave

Located within the old Lutheran Cemetery section of All Faiths Cemetery, among the untended graves of New York's German-American community of the late 19th and early 20th Century, is a monument to the dead of the General Slocum disaster that dwarfs the Slocum Disaster Memorial Fountain found in Tomkins Square Park in Manhattan. Dedicated on June 15, 1905, one year after the disaster, the memorial features four robed female figures on pedestals and an a stone etching of the ship going down in flames.

In 1912, additional figures, angels cradling children, were added to both sides of the original memorial, perhaps alluding to the many children who perished in the tragedy. Over 1,000 died, making the General Slocum the worst disaster (in terms of lives lost) in NYC history until the 9/11 atrocities of 2001.