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Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The cemetery was opened in 1874 [1] and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning Pike (zip code 15215).
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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the...
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Green-Wood's site is characterized by varied topography created by glacial moraines, particularly the Harbor Hill Moraine. Battle Hill, also known as Gowan's Heights, the highest point in Brooklyn, is on cemetery grounds, rising approximately 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. It was the site of an important action during the Battle of Long Island on...
Founding and construction
Following the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts in 1831, leaders of New York City and its borough in Brooklyn began discussing locations to build a cemetery of their own. At the time, over 10,000 people were being buried per year in the two cities. The cemetery was the idea of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, a Brooklyn social leader. As early as 1832, Pierrepont was considering constructing such a cemetery on a hilly area to the east of Gowanus Bay. Acts of incorporation for "The Gr...
20th century
Green-Wood has remained non-sectarian, but was generally considered a Christian burial place for white Anglo-Saxon Protestants of good repute. One early regulation was that no one executed for a crime, or even dying in jail, could be buried there. However, the family of infamous political leader "Boss" Tweed managed to circumvent this rule even though he died in the Ludlow Street Jail. The cemetery's chapel was completed in 1913 by Warren and Wetmore, on the site of Arbor Water.By 1916, the c...
21st century
In 1999, The Green-Wood Historic Fund, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit institution, was created to continue preservation, beautification, educational programs and community outreach as the current "working cemetery" evolves into a Brooklyn cultural institution. The Historic Fund's Civil War Project, an effort to identify and remember Civil War veterans buried at Green-Wood, was created following the rededication ceremony of the Civil War Soldiers' Monument. These early graves had either sunk into...
Green-Wood Cemetery's interments include a considerable number of notable people, including painter George Catlin, designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, painter Asher B. Durand, printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Ives, and architects James Renwick Jr. and Richard Upjohn are among the artists interred in the cemetery. In addition, public leaders Will...
The gates of the cemetery were designated a New York City landmark in 1966, and the Weir Greenhouse, used as a visitor's center, was designated as such in 1982. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.The Fort Hamilto...
Monument to Miss Charlotte Canda, Battle Avenue by E. & H. T. AnthonyVista from the Hillside MausoleumAnnual Battle of Long Island commemoration inside the main GothicArch entrance in Green-Wood CemeteryEuropean beech tree and mausoleumsIn an episode of the Netflix series Daredevil ("Penny and Dime"; season 2, episode 4), the cemetery is where Matt Murdock brings a wounded Frank Castleafter rescuing him from the Kitchen Irish; Mur...In the first series of another Netflix series, also set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Fist, the cemetery is the location of a memorial to Danny Randand his family.The 2014 film A Walk Among the Tombstoneshas several scenes at Green-Wood Cemetery.Notes Sources 1. "Historic Structures Report: Green-Wood Cemetery" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. August 12, 1983. 2. Hurley, Marianne (April 12, 2016). "Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance; Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. 3. Mosca, Alexandra Kathryn (2008). Green-W...
Green-Wood Cemetery at Find a GraveGreen-Wood Cemetery at Interment.netAllegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a historic rural cemetery. The non-sectarian, wooded hillside park is located at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood, and bounded by the Bloomfield, Garfield, and Stanton Heights areas.
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The cemetery was opened in 1874 and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning Pike321 (zip code 15215).
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The cemetery was opened in 1874 and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning Pike. greenwoodpa.org. Wikipedia. Ukraine is facing shortages in its brave fight to survive.
The Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries. Still an active cemetery, the Green-Wood of today is also a cultural institution, an outdoor museum that tells the history and evokes the cultures of the borough, the city and the nation.
