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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
Pages in category "Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 420 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bensonia Cemetery, also known as "Morrisania Cemetery", was originally a Native American burial ground. The graves were moved to Woodlawn Cemetery with a stated date of April 21, 1871 and re-interred into Lot 3. Public School #138, in The Bronx, is now on the site. [citation needed] Harlem Church Yard cemetery internees were moved to Woodlawn.
Woodlawn cemetery was created by Henry Flagler in 1904 on a pineapple growing field in West Palm. 5 interesting facts about historical burial site.
This is intended to be a complete list of the 84 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bronx County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
By June 1, 1856, Woodlawn Cemetery had 948 interments. [2] By 1868, half of Woodlawn's burial plots had been sold, so the cemetery expanded by acquired an adjoining 75-acre property. A greenhouse was constructed on this lot and the house on this property was repaired and used as a residence for the cemetery's gardener. [3]
Within Woodlawn Cemetery is the distinct Woodlawn National Cemetery, begun with the interment of Confederate prisoners from the nearby Elmira Prison (dubbed "Hellmira" by its inmates) during the American Civil War. It is run by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. [2] Graves of Olivia Langdon Clemens and Mark Twain
Over the years, people left adjacent land to the cemetery which now totals 64.4 acres (261,000 m 2) in the city and 7 acres (28,000 m 2) in the town of Canandaigua and serves as a burial site for more than 13,000 people. The Woodlawn Cemetery chapel was dedicated in 1910. In 2014 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]