The Evergreens Cemetery, Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, United States
The Evergreens Cemetery, also called Cemetery of the Evergreens, is a non-denominational rural cemetery that stretches across the border of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. Its grounds cover 225 acres of rolling hills and meadows, with several thousand trees and flowering shrubs, and include small stone buildings with pitched roofs and columned porches near the entrance.
Incorporated in 1849, the cemetery was established soon after New York's Rural Cemetery Act encouraged burial grounds outside Manhattan. It became the busiest cemetery in New York City for a time, and in 2007 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Celestial Hill, one of the earliest burial grounds in New York for Chinese immigrants, sits within the cemetery grounds. Many tombstones carry inscriptions in German, reflecting the strong German-American community that shaped this place in the 19th century.
The cemetery is open to visitors daily, and its rolling terrain and unpaved paths make comfortable shoes a good idea. A map at the entrance helps you navigate the grounds, and the main office can provide guidance on locating specific graves or monuments.
A monument to six unidentified victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 stands in the cemetery; they were finally named in 2011 after years of research. The grounds also hold the graves of seventeen British Commonwealth service personnel from both World Wars.
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