Woodlawn Cemetery
The Bronx, United States · built 1863
Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark. Located south of Woodlawn Heights, Bronx, it has the character of a rural cemetery. It is notable in part as the final resting place of some well-known figures. Woodlawn Cemetery opened during the Civil War in 1863, in what was then an undeveloped part of Yonkers, Westchester County, that was annexed to New York City in 1874. A stone-mounted plaque marks the site of a Revolutionary War-era redoubt constructed by the Continental Army in 1776 to protect its retreat from Manhattan to Westchester. It is located on a high point in the southeastern section of the cemetery, near Gun Hill Road.
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