Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 in
Brooklyn and became a National Historic Landmark in 2006. It consists of over 450 acres of mature trees and over half a million graves. There are numerous notables buried here and it was used by New Yorkers as a park before the design of Central Park across the river. Click
HERE to visit the Green-Wood website and
HERE to see
Green-Wood on google earth.
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The highest point in
Brooklyn is located inside
Green-Wood, where a monument to the Civil War and Revolutionary War can be found at '
Battle Hill'. The site is part of an area that saw the first major battle of the Revolutionary War after the U.S. had declared independence, known as the '
Battle of Long Island'. Below is the view of downtown
Manhattan from the hill.
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Captain Mathisen was a Freemason, as can be seen by the symbol over his name.
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The Statue of Liberty in the distance from one end of the cemetery.
4 comments:
Those are beautiful photos! I was able to visit G-W for the first time last month on a visit home to NYC and found some of my ancestors' graves....It took a long time even with a map and the right lot numbers though, it is even bigger than I imagined!
I love the view of Manhattan! It's pretty cool from Astoria too.
Green-Wood is heaven. I wish people could still picnic here, as was done in the 19th century.
Amazing. The photos are brilliant. The landscape is beutiful.
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