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Woodlawn Cemetery - Definition and Overview |
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This article is about the cemetery in the Bronx. A cemetery of the same name, the burial place of Emperor Norton I is in Colma, California.
Located in The Bronx, Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City. Opened in 1865, at a time when The Bronx was still considered as being out in "the country." Built on gentle, rolling hills, its tree-lined roads provide a beautiful setting in today's bustling city.
In 1967, what is generally believed to be the first community mausoleum on the East Coast of the United States was built at Woodlawn. The concept has proved extremely popular, and as a result many other cemeteries throughout the United States have since added such structures.
Notable people interred there include:
- Nora Bayes
- Irving Berlin
- Nellie Bly
- Ralph Bunche
- George M. Cohan
- Celia Cruz
- Miles Davis
- Clarence Day
- Duke Ellington
- David Farragut
- Frankie Frisch
- Antoinette Perry Frueauff - The Tony Award is named after her
- Jay Gould
- Archibald Gracie
- Oscar Hammerstein, Sr.
- Lionel Hampton
- W.C. Handy
- Victor Herbert
- Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, America's "Poor Little Rich Girl"
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Collis P. Huntington
- Augustus D. Juilliard
- Fiorello LaGuardia
- Frank Belknap Long
- Roland Macy
- Bat Masterson, US Marshall
- George McManus
- Herman Melville
- Marilyn Miller
- Robert Moses
- Thomas Nast
- James Cash Penney
- Otto Preminger, actor and director
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Damon Runyon
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Joseph Stella
- John William Sterling, one of Yale's largest benefactors
- Olive Thomas, actress and wife of Jack Pickford
- C. J. Walker, she was the first African-American millionaire
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite
- Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, polo and race horse breeder
- Frank Woolworth, chain store founder
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