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Mary O. • August 4, 2017Despite what you may think, this place has an incredible history. It also has beautiful, well maintained grounds. Their events are often worth the expense.
Nate F. • August 19, 2020eliza gilbert, also known as lola montez, was an irish dancer and adventuress who became mistress to the king of bavaria and made a countess
Nate F. • June 30, 2021stephen whitney was one of the wealthiest merchants in new york city in the first half of the 19th century
Nate F. • June 29, 2021rapper, singer, and songwriter known professionally as pop smoke, murdered in los angeles during a home invasion
Nate F. • August 16, 2020Laura Keene was the lead actress in Our American Cousin, the play being performed at Ford Theater the night Lincoln was assassinated.
Nate F. • August 22, 2020charles ebbets was owner of the brooklyn dodgers and built their stadium, ebbets field, in flatbush
Nate F. • August 18, 2020susan smith mckinney-steward was the first female african american medical doctor in new york
Nate F. • September 14, 2020tomb of pianist and egyptologist albert ross parsons and his wife alice schuyler van ness
Nate F. • September 16, 2020known as the "progressive minstrel", was the first white owner of a minstrel troupe composed of black performers in the US
Nate F. • August 30, 2020do-hum-me was the daughter of the chief of the sauk tribe and was a popular performer at pt barnum’s american museum before she died of illness at age 18. she is buried in her wedding dress.
Nate F. • June 30, 2021founder of the john m bradstreet financial company which later merged with dunn and company to the dunn and bradstreet company
Nate F. • September 16, 2020monument dedicated by the city of new york in honor of its heroic dead and to the 148,000 soldiers who enlisted to serve in the civil war
Nate F. • May 15, 2021the havemeyer family made their fortune in the sugar business, and owned the domino sugar refinery in brooklyn, one of the world’s largest
Nate F. • June 30, 2021the family mausoleum of john delafield, merchant and founder and director of mutual insurance company
Nate F. • September 9, 2021an english astronomer best known for producing one of the earliest maps of the planet mars
Nate F. • August 30, 2020the largest private mausoleum in green wood hosts the remains of the family of henry steinway, piano maker
Nate F. • June 30, 2021businessman, philanthropist, and father of future president theodore roosevelt
Nate F. • December 9, 2020An arbiter of social taste and authority on New York's elite families. Interred in a vault in the Green-Wood catacombs.
Nate F. • September 10, 2020leader of the bowery boys gang, was (heavily) fictionalized in scorsese’s gangs of new york
Nate F. • June 29, 2021construction contractor involved in creation of the brooklyn bridge. his grave stone is made from a piece of granite that was once part of the bridge.
Nate F. • September 3, 2020jean-michel basquiat died of a heroin overdose at age 27 in 1988. in 2017, a 1982 painting of his sold for $110.5 million, setting a record price for any american artist
Nate F. • August 18, 2020at 117, sarah kairns is the oldest resident of green-wood cemetery. she was the mother of 22 children.
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