Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, several blocks east of Prospect Park. In the New York Times it was said to be the "ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Central Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood". Inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, overlooking Boston, it was the idea of Henry Pierrepoint. It was a popular tourist attraction in the 1850s and was the place most famous New Yorkers who died during the second half of the nineteenth century were buried. It is still an operating cemetery with approximately 600,000 graves. The rolling hills and dales, several ponds and an on-site chapel provide an environment that still draws visitors. On weekends cars are allowed on cemetery grounds. There are several famous monuments located there, including a statue of DeWitt Clinton and a Civil War Memorial. During the Civil War, Green-Wood Cemetery created the "Soldiers' Lot" for free veterans' burials.
List of notable deceased
Notables buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York:
Albert Anastasia, (1903 - 1957) mobster, "Lord High Executioner" for "Murder Inc."
James E. Davis (1962 - 2003) - assassinated City Councilman, was buried here for a few days, near a mausoleum containing the ashes of his assassin: On August 3, 2003, his family had his body exhumed and reintered in the Cemetery of the Evergreens.
While there are many sources that speak of the history of GreenwoodCemetery, we thought it would be more meaningful to hear it "straight from the horse's mouth." One of the founders of Greenwood was Samuel A. Robinson.
Several years since the city councilmen purchased the cemetery for Orlando, and subsequently fourteen acres lying north of it, together with a tract on the west of it, which has been sold, were added to it.
The city management of the cemetery has been good, and the present council are very ably upbuilding and beautifying Greenwood.
Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, several blocks east of Prospect Park.
In the New York Times it was said to be the "ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Central Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood".
Inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, overlooking Boston, it was the idea of Henry Pierrepoint.
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