Woodlawn Cemetery

This article is about the cemetery in the Bronx. A cemetery of the same name, the burial place of Emperor Norton I is in Colma, California.\n---- \nLocated in The Bronx, the Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City. Opened in 1865, at a time when The Bronx was still considered as being out in "the country." Built on gentle, rolling hills, its tree-lined roads provide a beautiful setting in today's bustling city. Notable people interred there include:\n*Nora Bayes\n*Irving Berlin\n*Nellie Bly\n*Ralph Bunche\n*George M. Cohan\n*Celia Cruz\n*Miles Davis\n*Clarence Day\n*Duke Ellington\n*David Farragut\n*Frankie Frisch\n*Antoinette Perry Frueauff - The Tony Award is named after her\n*Jay Gould\n*Archibald Gracie\n*Oscar Hammerstein, Sr\n*Lionel Hampton \n*W.C. Handy\n*Victor Herbert\n*Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, America's "Poor Little Rich Girl" \n*Charles Evans Hughes\n*Collis P. Huntington\n*Augustus D. Juilliard\n*Fiorello LaGuardia\n*Frank Belknap Long\n*Roland Macy\n*Bat Masterson, US Marshall\n*George McManus\n*Herman Melville\n*Marilyn Miller\n*Robert Moses\n*Thomas Nast\n*James Cash Penny\n*Otto Preminger, actor and director \n*Joseph Pulitzer\n*Damon Runyon\n*Elizabeth Cady Stanton\n*Joseph Stella\n*John William Sterling, one of Yale's largest benefactors\n*Olive Thomas, actress and wife of Jack Pickford \n*C. J. Walker, she was the first African-American millionaire\n*Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite\n*Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, polo and race horse breeder\n*Frank Woolworth, chain store founder See also:\n*List of other famous cemeteries\n*List of United States cemeteries