October 29: Hurricane Sandy
October 29: On this date in 2012, Hurricane Sandy destroyed 300 trees and many monuments at Green-Wood, causing $500,000 in damage.
October 28: Ferdinand Ward
October 28: On this date in 1886, Ferdinand Ward, a swindler who became known as “the Best-Hated Man in the United States,” went on trial; he would be convicted and imprisoned; upon his release he tried to steal his own son’s trust fund.
October 27: Alice Hathaway
October 27: Future president Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway were married on this date in 1880.
October 26: De Witt Clinton
October 26: As a result of the vision and efforts of De Witt Clinton, the Erie Canal, linking the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean and making New York City the center of world trade, opened on this date in 1825.
October 25: Albert Anastasia
October 25: The “Lord High Executioner” of Organized Crime, Albert Anastasia, was gunned down in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel on this date in 1957.
October 24: James McDougal Hart
October 24: James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born Hudson River School painter, who specialized in scenes of cattle, died on this date in 1901.
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Contributions to our general fund are the most welcome of gifts. We will put your dollars to work right away to help preserve and restore our spectacular landscape and underwrite our many tours, public programs and education. Please click on an option below to contribute. Use the notes box on the next page to indicate … Read more
October 23: Nathaniel Currier
October 23: On this date in 1974, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp of Nathaniel Currier and his wife in a sleigh, based on a lithograph Currier had published a century earlier.
Open Houses Weekend
Green-Wood recently hosted its third annual “Open Houses” event. It is a great opportunity for volunteers to dress up in costume (from the Theater Development Fund) and get into character, greeting visitors to “their” mausoleums. And it is a wonderful chance for visitors to see Green-Wood as they have never seen it before–an inside look … Read more
October 22: Napoleon Sarony
October 22: World-famous actress Sarah Bernhardt was born on this date in Paris in 1844: she would journey to New York City many times, and would often go to the studio of photographer-to-the-stars Napoleon Sarony to have her portrait taken.