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To obtain a free copy of a map of Green-Wood, you can access a PDF version of the map at this link (right click and save to download), or ask for a copy when you visit Green-Wood at the guard booth or office at our main entrance at 500 25th Street (at 5th Avenue), Brooklyn, NY. Click on the controls below to browse a digital map: Previous ...
HOW TO LOCATE A GRAVE. Enter the name of the deceased into the. touchscreen system in the Administrative Office or. opposite the security guard’s station in the Arch. Your printout will show Lot and Section and a. close-up view of the area. To locate the Section on. this map, refer to the X, Y coordinates provided on.
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The Green-wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 by Henry Evelyn Pierrepoint. The original layout for the cemetery was designed by landscape architect David Bates Douglass. The 478 acres have a varied terrain and feature both the highest point in Brooklyn (Battle Hill) and four glacial kettle ponds.
Historical maps in BHS’s collection span the years 1562 to 2015 and depict the five boroughs, New York City, Long Island, New York State, New Jersey, New England, the mid-Atlantic, the eastern United States, and beyond.
Green Wood Cemetery; 1869, Map Collection, B A-1869.Fl; Brooklyn Historical Society. Historical maps in BHS’s collection span the years 1562 to 2015 and depict the five boroughs, New York City, Long Island, New York State, New Jersey, New England, the mid-Atlantic, the eastern United States, and beyond.
Sep 8, 2021 · “It is the ambition of New Yorker to live upon Fifth Avenue, to take his airing in the Central Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood.” The New York Times, 1886. Of course, as a cemetery, Green-Wood also hosts the artfully arranged ranks of some 560,000 residents—and counting.
4 days ago · The 478-acre Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, founded in 1838, was one of “America’s first rural cemeteries.” The official website of the cemetery boasts 560,000 “permanent residents ...
