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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) 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 .

The Green-wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 by Henry Evelyn Pierrepoint. The original layout for the cemetery was designed by landscape architect David Bates Douglass. The 478 acres have a varied terrain and feature both the highest point in Brooklyn (Battle Hill) and four glacial kettle ponds.

The Green-Wood Cemetery New York 500 25th Street Brooklyn, NY 11232 United States Website http://www.green-wood.com Sixteen Union generals, including Henry Halleck, Henry Slocum, Abram Duryee, and Fitz-John Porter, and two Confederate generals are buried at The Green-Wood Cemetery.

Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park , and is generally bounded by 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.

The Green-Wood Cemetery Location: Archon The Green-Wood Cemetery Green-Wood’s archives are comprised primarily of institutional records produced by cemetery staff as a result of day-to-day business activities conducted from its founding in 1838 to the present.

Greenwood Cemetery was established in 1904 by William H. Brown and James L. Mayson. The first burial occurred in 1907. There is a large Jewish section, a Chinese section and a Greek section. The cemetery was first desegregated in 1987 with the interment of C.R. Jones, Atlanta's first African-American council member.