Woodlawn Cemetery (New Windsor, New York)
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| Woodlawn Cemetery | |
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| Established | 1870 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 41°28′35″N 74°01′40″W / 41.47639°N 74.02778°W |
| Type | Rural |
| Owned by | Town of New Windsor |
| Size | 72 acres |
| Find a Grave | Woodlawn Cemetery |
Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in New Windsor, New York exemplifying the rural style. For more than a century, a private organization maintained it, until the Town of New Windsor took ownership in 2017.[1]
By the late 19th century, Newburgh's cemeteries had become crowded and disturbed by urban sprawl. The expansive St. George's Cemetery, designed with Downing influence decades earlier, succumbed to these conditions as well. On October 22, 1870, the Newburgh Woodlawn Cemetery Association incorporated to purchase land for a new rural cemetery to meet the city's needs.[2] Instead of searching for land within the city boundaries, the association looked south to the suburb of New Windsor-on-Hudson and purchased fifty acres [2] about a mile from Quassaick Creek.
