The Green-Wood Cemetery: The Founding Years Through the Founding Documents
The Green-Wood Cemetery, founded in 1838, is one of America's oldest and most beautiful rural cemeteries. But how did the cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, that we know today come to be? A selection of numbered documents from over 300 items in the Green-Wood Cemetery Archives founding documents collection (1837-1899) shed light on the founding and development of the Green-Wood Cemetery.