Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site is a United StatesNational Historic Site located at 897 South Columbus Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York, just north of the New York City borough of The Bronx. The site was authorized in 1978 to protect Saint Paul's Church from increasing industrialization of the surrounding area. Saint Paul's Church is one of New York's oldest parishes and was used as a military hospital after the American Revolutionary WarBattle of Pell's Point in 1776. The cemetery surrounding the church is also within the historic site and contains an estimated 9,000 burials dating from 1704.