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Foremost in The Bronx is Woodlawn Cemetery, at Woodlawn. 

 It was incorporated in 1863 and covers four hundred acres of ele- 

 vated, sloping lands that display the height of the landscape 

 gardener's art and is one of the most picturesque burying grounds 

 in the world. It is situated on the westerly side of the Bronx River, 

 and extends to East Two Hundred Twenty-third Street. 



The grounds are divided by countless pathways, walks and 

 avenues, and the contrast of the hundreds of marble and granite 

 columns, monuments and mausoleums against the rich, green 

 lawns affords a rare picture. Trees of great age and splendor, beds 

 of flowers and plants and the green beds of ivy that almost hide 

 many of the grey-white tombs add to the delicious richness of the 

 spot. 



Representatives of some of the most prominent families in 

 New York have tombs there. Most notable are: The Appletons, 

 Goulds, Vanderbilts, Lorillards, Choates, Corbins, Crosbys, But- 

 terfields, Dillons, Flaglers, Havemeyers, Sloans, and Whitneys. The 

 remains of Lieut. De Long, and Jospeh Pulitzer are also interred 

 there. Lieut. De Long's body, with those of his comrades, were 

 brought from the Arctic regions and interred on Chapel Hill 

 Avenue. 



One of the most imposing of the monuments in the cemetery 

 is that of our first admiral, David Glasgow Farragut, who was 

 buried here in 1870. The shaft is of fine white marble in the 

 shape of a portion of a ship's mast, at the foot of which are 

 nautical paraphernalia, a sword and symbolic shields. The inscrip- 

 tion reads: 



Erected 



By his Wife and Son 



To the Memory of 



DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT, 



First Admiral of the United States Navy 



Born July 5, 1801, 



Died August 14, 1870. 



Bensonia Cemetery, altho now a neglected, barren tract of 

 land known on the City Map as the "Public Place at Rae Street," 

 was once a picturesque burial ground, in a lovely section of Mor- 

 risania, densely shaded by elms, poplar and evergreen trees. The 

 land was purchased in 1853 by Robert H. Elton, who laid out what 



