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Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark. Located south of Woodlawn Heights, Bronx, New York City, [1] it has the character of a rural cemetery. Woodlawn Cemetery opened during the Civil War in 1863, [2] in what was then Yonkers, in an area that was annexed to New York City ...
Woodland Cemetery (formerly known as Grove Cemetery and Woodlawn Cemetery) is a public, city-owned cemetery located at 428 Jerome Street in the city of Monroe in the U.S. state of Michigan. [1] [2] It occupies 10 acres (4.0 ha) and contains over 6,500 graves. Founded in 1810, it is one of Michigan's oldest public cemeteries.
Woodlawn Memorial Park, is a historic cemetery in Compton, California, United States. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles County . [ 1 ] The cemetery has had a history of care issues in the last 20 years, and since 2020 Woodlawn Memorial Park is only open for visitation.
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Woodlawn Cemetery (Carbondale, Illinois), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jackson County, Illinois Woodlawn Cemetery (Forest Park, Illinois) , including Showmen's Rest Woodlawn Cemetery Gates and Shelter , Washington, Iowa, listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Iowa
Woodlawn Cemetery is the name of a cemetery in Elmira, New York, United States. Its most famous burials are Mark Twain and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens . Many members of the United States Congress, including Jacob Sloat Fassett are also interred there.
Dorothy Parker (ashes reburied at Woodlawn in 2020) [6] James Cash Penney; Antoinette Perry, actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing; Alex Pompez, African-American baseball executive; Generoso Pope; George B. Post; Otto Preminger, film director; Samuel I. Prime; Frederick Freeman Proctor, vaudeville impresario
On October 22, 1870, the Newburgh Woodlawn Cemetery Association incorporated to purchase land for a new rural cemetery to meet the city's needs. [2] Instead of searching for land within the city boundaries, the association looked south to the suburb of New Windsor-on-Hudson and purchased fifty acres [ 2 ] about a mile from Quassaick Creek .