Last Friday, 30 demonstrators – mostly minority workers just getting off work, still dressed in hard hats and construction boots – joined community leaders outside of the northeastern gates of ...

The Cemetery holds 10,085 burials, from January 1905 through December 1994. Because Woodlawn was nearly full by 1927, the Australian pines were removed to make room for 422 additional lots. In later ...

Celestina Bishop turned her pain into purpose after finding that the grounds her mother and family were buried had been abandoned at Woodlawn Cemetery Celestina Bishop has been riding a wave of ...

When Woodlawn was established in 1863, its owners weren’t sure if the idea of a cemetery would take off. They used Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, which is 25 years older and still one of Woodlawn’s ...

WOODLAWN, The Bronx (PIX11) — It’s a place that’s alive with strength, perseverance, and courage, even though its permanent residents are no longer alive. That’s because the incredible stories of some ...

AYER – The town may soon have its own municipal cemetery, for the first time, if voters at the April 26 town meeting approve a plan to accept ownership of Woodlawn Cemetery, and if preliminary ...

Politicians, gamblers, lawyers, judges and two Civil War veterans — one Union, one Confederate — share the large, flat, grassy space in one of Clark County’s oldest cemeteries. Woodlawn Cemetery was ...

Hundreds of thousands of bees are calling the Woodlawn Cemetery home. Beekeeper Andrew Cote says the Conservancy at the cemetery is the perfect breeding ground for the insects due to its large amount ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Michael Cumella, dressed in 1920s garb, laid his old Victrola record player down among the tombstones and turned to the small tour group assembled under the towering trees at Woodlawn ...

4 at Woodlawn; 2, 5 at 233rd St. Admirers place seashells, rocks, even cigars on Herman Melville's relatively understated tombstone, located in the Catalpa plot, one of the cemetery's oldest. On the ...

Celestina Bishop has been riding a wave of emotions for the last 19 months. On Mother’s Day 2020, she visited Woodlawn Cemetery in Compton, California, only to find the grounds where her mother and ...