It is several blocks west 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, where a cemetery in a naturalistic park-like landscape in the English manner was first established, Green-Wood was able to take advantage of the varied topography provided by glacial moraines. Battle Hill, the highest point in Brooklyn, is on cemetery grounds.
The cemetery was the idea of Henry Evelyn Pierrepoint, a Brooklyn social leader. 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 spread out over 478 acres (191 ha). 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.
"Richard Upjohn designed an entrance gate on 5th Avenue opposite 25th Street (1861) in the Gothic Revival style, along with several wooden shelters (including one in a Gothic Revival style, one resembling an Italian villa, and another resembling a Swiss chalet)."[1] A descendent colony of parrots that were stow-aways on containers from South America to Idlewild International Airport (today JFK) in the 1960s today nest in the center spire of the gate.
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 reinterred in the Cemetery of the Evergreens.
Anson Greene Phelps, (1781-1853) founder of Phelps, Dodge mining and copper company.
Samuel Reid (1783-1861), said to have designed the U.S. flag
Bill "The Butcher" Poole (1821-1855), a member of the Bowery Boys gang and the U.S. political party, the Know-Nothings. He also was a known boxer in the New York area
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