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Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas, Texas)
Greenwood Cemetery may refer to: * Greenwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama) * Greenwood Cemetery (Orlando, Florida), a historic cemetery in Orlando, Florida * Greenwood Cemetery (Tallahassee, Florida) * Greenwood Cemetery (Atlanta), Georgia * Greenwood Cemetery (Galena, Illinois) * Greenwood Cemetery (Rockford, Illinois) * Greenwood Cemetery Chapel, Muscatine, Iowa * Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana * Greenwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Michigan) * Greenwood Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi) * Greenwood Cemetery (Hillsdale, Missouri) * Greenwood Cemetery, Boonton, New Jersey * Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York * Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio) * Greenwood Cemetery (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania * Greenwood Cemetery (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania * Old Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood, South Carolina * Greenwood Cemetery (Nashville, Tennessee) * Greenwood Cemetery (Wheeling, West Virginia) * Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas), Texas * Greenwood Cemetery (Waco), Texas, a rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama)
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Notable interments include: * John Abercrombie, U.S. Congressman * Bibb Graves, 38th Governor of Alabama * Dixie Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator and First Lady of Alabama * J. Lister Hill, U.S. Congressman and Senator * Reuben Kolb, Alabama's commissioner of agriculture * William R. Lawley, Jr., United States Army Air Forces officer and Medal of Honor recipient * Gordon Persons, 43rd Governor of Alabama * John C. C. Sanders, Civil War Confederate Brigadier General * George Wallace George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and ..., 45th Governor of Alabama * Lurleen Burns Wallace, 46th Governor of Alabama, First Lady of Alabama References External links * * * {{GNIS, 119382, Greenwood Cemetery Cemeteries i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. 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. Its boundaries include, among other streets, 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. Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery, in a time of rapid urbanization when churchyards in New York City were becoming overcrowded. Described as "Brooklyn's first public park by default long before Prospect Park was created", p. 687. Green-Wood Cemetery was so popular that it inspired a competition to design Central Park in Manhattan, as well as Prospect Park nearby. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and was made a National Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Waco)
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Waco, Texas. It was racially segregated for its entire history as a burial place, starting with its origins in the 1870s. It is one of the two oldest cemeteries in Waco along with Oakwood Cemetery. Because of the poverty of many people buried there, some of the graves were marked with wood or random objects rather than stone, or are unmarked. It contains a mass grave of 1918 influenza epidemic victims. Segregation Black burials in the cemetery are in a separate area from white burials. A quarter-mile-long fence once bisected the cemetery, separating the two areas. The City of Waco removed the fence in June 2016, though by then the cemetery was no longer used for burials because of its unclear land ownership and many unmarked graves. Transfer to City of Waco & restoration For much of Greenwood's history two separate volunteer organizations maintained the two sides of the cemetery. Until 2017 the People's Cemetery Association cared for the Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas)
Greenwood Cemetery is privately owned non-denominational cemetery located at 3020 Oak Grove Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1875 as the Trinity Cemetery, the first burial was a Mrs. Susan Bradford that March. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the city of Dallas. It is part of a cemetery tour, and sits next to the Emanu-El Cemetery, the Calvary Cemetery, and the Freedman's Cemetery Memorial. History At the time of its founding, the cemetery was out of town and surrounded by farmland. By 1896, the cemetery had fallen into disrepair with one local noting: "The fence is down in twenty places, cattle roam all over the graves and wagons use the main street as a common thoroughfare." This prompted the formation of the Greenwood Cemetery Association, which took over the maintenance and operation of the cemetery and gave it its current name. Notable burials * Vivian Louise Aunspaugh (1869–1960), painter and art teacher *Jacob Boll (1828–1880), na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Wheeling, West Virginia)
Greenwood Cemetery is the largest non-denominational cemetery in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. It is located at 1526 National Road in Wheeling. The cemetery is maintained and operated by the Greenwood Cemetery Association. Members of several notable Wheeling families and natives including United States Congressmen Carl G. Bachmann, Chester D. Hubbard, William P. Hubbard, John O. Pendleton, and Benjamin Stanton, as well as Metropolitan Opera soprano Eleanor Steber, Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. ... recipient Daniel A. Woods, and architect Frederick F. Faris, are buried in the Cemetery. External links * Ohio County Public Library Photographs from Greenwood Cemetery* * * Cemeteries in West Virginia Geography of Wheeling, West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Nashville, Tennessee)
Greenwood Cemetery is situated at 1428 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. When opened in 1888, it was only the second cemetery in Nashville for African Americans. History The cemetery was founded by local pastor and businessman Preston Taylor in 1888. Taylor had been born a slave in Louisiana in 1849. He settled in Nashville in 1884, where he became a well known minister and businessman. In 1887 he conceived the idea of establishing a cemetery for African Americans on of land near Buttermilk Ridge at Elm Hill Road. He purchased the land in 1887 for $30,000, and in 1888 he established Greenwood Cemetery. Its purpose was to provide low cost, first class burial plots for African-American residents of Nashville. Concurrently he established a mortuary, Taylor Funeral Company, at 449 North Cherry Street, now Fourth Avenue (not related to today's Taylor Funeral Home of Nashville). Taylor operated the cemetery himself until his death in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Greenwood Cemetery
Old Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina. Established around the year 1860, the Old Greenwood Cemetery is a historic burial place in the said city. It is significant because of being the oldest cemetery in the area. This being said, it has also become the resting place for many prominent figures in the locale. The Old Greenwood Cemetery was built as a graveyard for the old Main Street Methodist Church. It was laid out in the original site of the said church with an acre and a half of land area. It contains about 350 graves of pioneers and locals. The descendants of the people buried on the Old Greenwood Cemetery mostly take responsibility in caring for the site. They work hard to keep vandals away and maintain the site the best that they can. The cemetery was named to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Pittsburgh)
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The cemetery was opened in 1874 and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Kittanning Pike321 (zip code 15215). Notables interred here include Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson. Wilson's 1995 play ''Seven Guitars'' uses the cemetery as a setting. See also * List of cemeteries in the United States References External links * * * History of Pittsburgh Cemeteries in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1874 establishments in Pennsylvania {{US-cemetery-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Philadelphia)
Greenwood (Knights of Pythias) Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established in 1869, is 43 acres in size and contains approximately 20,000 graves. It was established by the Knights of Pythias to provide burials for their members. Over time, the cemetery suffered from abandonment and vandalism. The cemetery became a site for illegal dumping and the rear portion of the property became wildly overgrown. In August 2000, the cemetery was added to the list of Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. The Friends of Greenwood Cemetery and Greenwood Holdings have been successful in cleaning up the cemetery and renovating the house on the property. In 2008, approximately 1,500 bodies were reinterred from the rear portion of the cemetery to a mass grave near the front of the property to allow construction of a parking lot for the adjacent Cancer Treatment Centers of America. History The cemetery was estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)
Greenwood Cemetery is a registered historic district in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1994. It contains 5 contributing buildings. Greenwood is designed in the style of a landscaped park and garden with mortuary art and statues among the graves. History In 1848 the Greenwood Cemetery Association was created in order to establish a community cemetery. Land to create the cemetery was purchased from local resident David Bigham, and planned by Adolph Strauch. Greenwood Cemetery was modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston and Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati which had also been designed by Strauch. Prominent burials * Raymond H. Burke, US Congressman, teacher, and businessman * Lewis D. Campbell, US Congressman – over his political career he was elected as a Whig, Republican, Know Nothing, and Democrat, as well as colonel of the 69th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War * Ray Combs, host of ''Family Feud'' * Warren Gard, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery, Boonton
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Boonton, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Notable interments * John H. Capstick (1856–1918), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district from 1918 to 1919. * Charles Ferren Hopkins (1842–1934), Medal of Honor recipient while fighting for the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. * Joshua S. Salmon (1846–1902), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1902 to 1903. . Accessed August 11, 2007. * Arthur Stringer (1874–1950), wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Orlando, Florida)
Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Orlando, Florida. History In 1880, eight Orlando residents pulled together to buy 26 acres of land and form Orlando Cemetery. The name was changed to Greenwood Cemetery in 1915 at the request of two of its founders. The cemetery has expanded with land purchases over time and now has 86 acres of land. Sections of the cemetery are dedicated to Confederate veterans, Union veterans, Spanish-American veterans, World War I veterans and World War II veterans. Moonlight walking tours of the cemetery are popular in Orlando. These tours are led by a sexton and it offers a window into Orlando's history. The west side of the cemetery contains the 19-acre park, Greenwood Urban Wetlands, which was established in 1991. A section of the cemetery contains unmarked plots for the victims of lynchings by whites, according to history professor Vibert White. One such victim, July Perry, who was hung in 1920 after trying to vote in Ocoee, received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
