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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park.
O Green-Wood é um cemitério fundado em 1838 como um cemitério-jardim no Brooklyn, Nova Iorque. [5] Foi listado no Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos em 1997 e recebeu status de Marco Histórico Nacional em 2006 pelo Departamento do Interior dos Estados Unidos .
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.
27 de set. de 2006 · Green-Wood is a living cemetery that brings people closer to the world as it is and was, by memorializing the dead and bringing to life the art, history, and natural beauty of New York City. Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. By the early 1860s, it had ...
22 de mar. de 2023 · Who Was Buried at Green-Wood, 1840-1937? Now It’s Easier to Find Out. The ledgers of the famous Brooklyn cemetery are online and include some famous names, like Boss Tweed and F.A.O. Schwarz.
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.
Established in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries, Green-Wood Cemetery soon developed an international reputation for its magnificent beauty and quickly became the fashionable place to be buried.
