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1 posted on 01/26/2013 7:41:49 AM PST by NYer
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Main Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery

stablished in 1838 as a rural cemetery, Green-Wood Cemetery has been a home to numerous distinguished individuals and families, including the “Father of American Embalming”, Dr. Auguste Renouard, politicians, civil war generals, poets, artists, and other prominent society figures. It is also a very scenic and beautiful area.

The Green-Wood Cemetery covers 427 acres of land. It was, according to its description in the National Historic Landmark listing, the most varied and largest rural cemeteries in the country. It was designated as a part of the prestigious list in 2006.

2 posted on 01/26/2013 7:43:27 AM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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3 posted on 01/26/2013 7:44:55 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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But the pages were totally ruined by years of rain water that seeped into the box and through the plastic covering inside.

They should have put it into a vacuum sealed food saver bag.....

4 posted on 01/26/2013 7:46:52 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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Pierrepont Family Memorial, Green-Wood Cemetery

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont was known as the “first citizen” of Brooklyn for good reason. He, along with his father Hezekiah B. and mother Anna Maria before him, played a significant role in the planning of Brooklyn as a physical city, its crucial ferry services to New York, and the establishment of Green-Wood Cemetery itself. He is considered by some to be one of the first “city planners” in the United States, a logical evolution from his father’s status as the first important suburban (Brooklyn Heights) real-estate developer in American History. Pierrepont Street in the Heights commemorates the family to this day.

5 posted on 01/26/2013 7:46:52 AM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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7 posted on 01/26/2013 7:51:55 AM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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This cemetery was featured in the movie "Gangs of New York." Some of the characters in the movie were based on people buried there.


8 posted on 01/26/2013 8:17:44 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Brooklyn Lodgers)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsROL4Kf8QY

Oh yea


10 posted on 01/26/2013 8:47:37 AM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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What a gorgeous place and interesting history. My paternal grandparents are buried at Kensico Cemetary in Valhalla, about 40 miles north of Green-Wood. It is just gorgeous up there.

Too bad amateurs who make up time capsules don’t often think about the destruction by infiltrating water. A welded-shut stainless steel cannister with a nitrogen blanket should do the trick.


11 posted on 01/26/2013 12:32:40 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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A time capsule from 1954? Hell, the people who buried it are pobably still alive.


12 posted on 01/26/2013 1:08:38 PM PST by ozzymandus
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