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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 ...
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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.
Oak Hill Cemetery (Oak Hill, New York) Oakwood Cemetery (Niagara Falls, New York) Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York) Old Cochecton Cemetery; Old Hartwick Village Cemetery; Old Sloatsburg Cemetery; Old St. Peter's Church (Van Cortlandtville, New York) Old Town Cemetery (Newburgh, New York) Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
The Farragut grave site is located in Woodlawn Cemetery's northeastern Aurora Hill section. It is set in a circular plot that is part of a larger lozenge-shaped section bounded on the east by East Boundary Drive, and the west by Daisy and Ravine Drives. The plot is ringed by a paved walkway, and the main monument is set on a local high point.
Woodlawn Cemetery (Orchard Park, New York) Woodlawn Cemetery (Syracuse, New York), where Peter Kappesser is interred; Woodlawn Cemetery (Ada, Ohio) Woodlawn Cemetery (Toledo, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Lucas County, Ohio; Woodlawn Cemetery (Titusville, Pennsylvania) Woodlawn Cemetery (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington ...
Woodlawn National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery within Woodlawn Cemetery, which is in the city of Elmira, in Chemung County, New York. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 10.5 acres (4.2 ha), and as of 2021, had over 11,000 interred remains.
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.