The song’s author, George M. Cohan, was also honored on this tour of jazz and vaudeville greats buried at Woodlawn, a grand old cemetery and arboretum in the heart of the Bronx. Cohan and his family ...

4 at Woodlawn; 2, 5 at 233rd St. Admirers place seashells, rocks, even cigars on Herman Melville's relatively understated tombstone, located in the Catalpa plot, one of the cemetery's oldest.

This absolutely massive oak is a sentinel overlooking the Bronx. This tree is estimated to be nearly 300 years old, recognized as exceptional and preserved when Woodlawn Cemetery was first created.

In 1878 his remains were transferred to Woodlawn Cemetery, making Tilden the first Civil War soldier to be buried there. With the demise of the Confederacy in 1865, surviving Union veterans formed the ...