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Woodlawn Cemetery (New Windsor, New York)

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The cemetery is composed of several sloping lawns, with different picturesque settings. The two most contrasting examples of this are the shaded groves against Union Avenue, and the man-made pond viewable from Erie Avenue. Originally laid with gravel, the central paths through the cemetery have been
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The entrance to the cemetery is on Quassaick Avenue, through a marble gateway. Installed in 1897, Lewis S. Sterrit anonymously donated it to the cemetery for beautification purposes. D. C. Miller completed the design to Sterrit's wishes. The gates are topped with a sphere on either pillar, inscribed
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influence decades earlier, succumbed to these conditions as well. On October 22, 1870, the Newburgh Woodlawn Cemetery Association incorporated to purchase land for a new rural cemetery to meet the city's needs. Instead of searching for land within the city boundaries, the association looked south to
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cemeteries had become crowded and disturbed by urban sprawl. The expansive
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The oak groves beside Union Avenue, an older portion of the cemetery
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New Windsor, New York
Coordinates
41°28′35″N 74°01′40″W / 41.47639°N 74.02778°W / 41.47639; -74.02778
Find a Grave
Woodlawn Cemetery
New Windsor, New York
rural style
Newburgh's
St. George's Cemetery
Downing
New Windsor-on-Hudson
Quassaick Creek

Lyman Abbott
Congregationalist
Senda Berenson Abbott
Lithuanian-American
women's basketball
Black
dance instructor
performing arts school
George Monroe Beebe
U.S. Congressman
Kansas Territory
Charles Clinton
patriarch
James Clinton
major general
Continental Army
veteran

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