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Cypress Hills Cemetery is a non-profit, non-sectarian cemetery founded in 1848. It offers interment space, flowers, plants, trees, benches, gardens and historic tours in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.
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The Cemetery spans 225 acres and features two three-story...
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Maintaining a cemetery through 163 years is a monumental...
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Forest Lawn - Cypress Home » Parks » Cypress The natural beauty of this peaceful setting has been enhanced by some incredible art and architecture, including an exact bronze replica of Michelangelo’s David , a meticulous re-creation of the church where Patrick Henry gave his famous “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, and the ...
The Cemetery spans 225 acres and features two three-story mausoleums, Cypress Hills Abbey built in 1931 and Memorial Abbey built in 1936. These nearly 75-year-old buildings retain their original features, such as stained-glass windows and an immaculate chapel.
Welcome to Cypress Cemetery on Saybrook Point in Old Saybrook, one of the oldest, continuously operating cemeteries in North America. After years of perhaps 5 to 10 burials a year, the Cypress Cemetery Association recently expanded the cemetery, adding over 400 new plots and a cremation columbarium to service the needs of the Old Saybrook community.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery is a 18.2-acre (7.4 ha) cemetery located in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It is the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians. There are 24 Medal of Honor recipients buried in the cemetery, including three men ...
In 1892, when Laurel Hill Cemetery (formerly Lone Mountain Cemetery) was forced out of San Francisco, the thirty five thousand (35,000) buried at Laurel Hill were moved to Cypress Lawn and in doing so San Francisco relinquished a part of its own history.
To accommodate the growing number of burials requested at Cypress Hills, more than 15 acres were purchased in 1884. In addition, in 1941, a small tract within the old Cypress Hills Cemetery, known as the Mount of Victory Plot, was donated by the State of New York.
