Green-Wood Cemetery is 478 acres of park like rolling Brooklyn hills with the some of the best views in all of New York City. Established in 1838, the cemetery has always been more than just a cemetery. By the 1860's it was the second most popular tourist destination in the country (Niagara Falls claimed number one) seeing well over 500 thousand visitors a year. Even by today's population that is an astounding number. Green-Wood was the inspiration to create Central Park in Manhattan. The final resting place for numerous historical figures and having the largest collection of stately trees in New York, Green-Wood was declared a national treasure in 2006.The Civil War graves in this photo are part of an on-going project to find "lost" grave sites of Civil War vets and return them to the dignity that they deserve. At the start of the project volunteers estimated finding 500 graves, the actual number in currently in the thousands!
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