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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. 
oodlawn Ceme- 
tery is one of 
the well known 
cemeteries o f 
the country, 
not alone from 
its being 
a pioneer in 
the “lawn plan” of cemetery design and its other 
varied landscape attractions, but by the large num- 
ber of fine mausoleums and monuments it contains 
and the wealth of the families owning property there- 
in. It is situated on the lines of the N. Y. & 11 . 
and the N. Y., N. H. & II. railroads, twelve miles 
from the Grand Central Station, New York City. 
It was organized in 1863 and improvements com- 
menced in 1864; the first interment taking place on 
January 14, 1865. In area it covers some 400 acres, 
the arrangement of which is shown on the accompany- 
ing plan. The greatest elevation is about 200 feet 
abov''e sea level and the land comprises loam, gravel. 
clay and rock in its formation. The two lakes have 
an area of three and a half acres. 
Forty sections of an average area of four acres 
are laid out, and there are nine and a quarter miles 
of Telford macadam road traversing the cemetery. 
Many of the lots are of large area, from forty thous- 
and down to five thousand square feet. 
Two sections are devoted to single graves, con- 
taining about six acres, the head stones on which 
must not exceed two feet in height. 
The lawn plan is the ruling principle and there 
are no visible paths except around circular plats. 
While no restrictions are placed about mounding 
graves it is recommended not to exceed four inches. 
It is not required that designs be submitted be- 
fore erecting monuments, but the comptroller ex- 
ercises his judgment on mausoleums, which must be 
constructed of permanent material — granite, marble, 
good stone and real bronze. 
There are two receiving vaults, the old one con- 
taining I 50 catacombs, and the new one built a few 
years ago, at a cost of S 12,000, with 1 38 catacombs. 
Altogether there have been 47,613 interments since 
M.<\P OF WOODI.AWN CEME'l'ERY, NEW YORK CIIY. 
