The Green-Wood Cemetery has long been considered one of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries and is the final resting place of nearly 600,000 persons, including some of history’s most memorable figures. Since its establishment in 1838, The Green-Wood Cemetery has offered a dignified selection of burial options including an urn garden, columbarium, community and private family mausoleums, as well as traditional, in-ground burials, all in a historic, non-sectarian setting. With 478 acres filled with thousands of trees, flowering shrubs and four lakes, The Green-Wood Cemetery offers eternal tranquility among timeless beauty.

The Green-Wood Cemetery
500 – 25th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11232-1317
Phone: 718-768-7300
Web Site:  www.green-wood.com

Here are just a few of the famous people buried at Green-Wood Cemetery:

	Julius Walker Adams, Civil War colonel, engineer who designed preliminary plans for the Brooklyn Bridge
	Albert Anastasia, mobster
	Jean Michel Basquiat, graffiti artist, Andy Warhol protege
	Henry Ward Beecher, abolitionist, religious leader, subject of scandal
	Leonard Bernstein, music giant: composer, conductor, and teacher
	Harvey Burdell, murder victim
	George Catlin, painter of Indians
	Henry Chadwick, “Father of Baseball”
	Kate Claxton, actress on stage during the Brooklyn Theater fire
	De Witt Clinton, force behind the Erie Canal, political leader
	Abraham Duryee, Civil War general
	Charles Ebbets, Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner
	Molly Fancher, psychic
	Joey Gallo, mobster nicknamed “Crazy Joe”
	Henry George, political and economic reformer
	Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America’s first great composer
	Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune
	Henry Halleck, General in command of all Union forces during the Civil War
	William Surrey Hart, cowboy actor
	Laura Keene, actress on stage at Ford’s Theatre when President Lincoln was shot
	Ward McAllister, New York’s social arbiter
	Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, first black woman doctor in New York State
	Lola Montez, independent woman famed for her affairs and her Spider Dance
	Frank Morgan, actor, best known for his role as the Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz”
	Napoleon Sarony, photographer to the stars
	George Tilyou, proprietor of Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park
	Juan Trippe, founder of Pan American Air Airways
	“Boss” Tweed, political boss of New York City
	Lester Walleck, actor