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.
They should have put it into a vacuum sealed food saver bag.....
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 fathers 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.
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.
A time capsule from 1954? Hell, the people who buried it are pobably still alive.