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  2. Potter's field - Wikipedia

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    Kings County Cemetery or Kings County Farm Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City. [9] Lincoln Park, on Chicago's North Side, found its origin in the 1840s as Chicago City Cemetery. The southernmost portion of the cemetery, where one may now find a number of baseball fields (north of LaSalle Dr., west of North Avenue Beach), was the location of the ...

  3. Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas) - Wikipedia

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    Its location at Washington Avenue overlooking Buffalo Bayou served as an entertainment attraction in the 1880s. The design was based on principles for garden cemeteries, breaking the pattern of the typical gridiron layouts of most Houston cemeteries. Many influential people lay to rest at Glenwood, making it the "River Oaks of the dead." As of ...

  4. List of burials at Green-Wood Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.

  5. Green-Wood Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. [7] The cemetery is located between South Slope / Greenwood Heights , Park Slope , Windsor Terrace , Borough Park , Kensington , and Sunset Park , and lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park .

  6. Brooklyn cemetery honors Day of the Dead with crafts ... - AOL

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    NEW YORK (PIX11) – A Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebration is happening at a New York City cemetery on Friday. The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is hosting a Day of the Dead family ...

  7. Augustus Chapman Allen - Wikipedia

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    Soon after arriving there, he contracted pneumonia, [2] died on Monday, January 11, 1864, aged 58 in Washington, D.C., and was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Several Houston landmarks, including Allen Parkway and Allen Center, as well as Allen's Landing Park, commemorate Augustus and his brother, the city's two founders.

  8. List of cemeteries in New York - Wikipedia

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    National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City; New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York; New Paltz Rural Cemetery, New Paltz; New York Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City

  9. List of cemeteries in New York City - Wikipedia

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    First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown [2] New York Marble Cemetery, [3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City; New York City Marble Cemetery, [4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City. Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan