Many of the interred fell victim to a yellow fever outbreak that swept through the city in the early part of the 19th century. Washington Square, New York would be the sensible title for this article.

Washington Square Park is the main setting for the Fearless teen book series by Francine Pascal. It was turned into a parade ground in 1826.

Washington Square sloped significantly, creating a deep gully on its eastern end.

I think I achieved neutrality in that part of the entry. It also happened to be adjacent to several established church cemeteries, adding to the area’s body count. The coronavirus has changed that, however.

The tomb and Washington Square are part of Independence National Historical Park. But it is in fact a city-owned and city-maintained park, free to anyone, and NYU has no special claim to it. Bryant Park, a couple of miles north, was another potter’s field, serving as a burial ground for the poor and victims of disease from 1823 to 1840.

The Kansas City emo group The Get Up Kids have a song called "Washington Square Park" appearing on their debut album, Four Minute Mile, released in 1997. The soil is very fertile. We met so many good people alot of them stayed in the park to there are many fond memories wish i could come back there for a day, Another part of local Greenwich history here is Minetta Square. Do you know recipe to fight with dead men if zombie apocalypse will happens?

I would not consider this to be "an ultra low rate" of illicit drugs in a public park anywhere.

I've removed the following trivia from the page.

And can we cite a reliable source. I deleted the sentence about Justice Goodman's pro-"Open Washington Square Park Coalition" court decision because: 1) It was inaccurate -- Open Washington Square Park Coalition was not a party to the case, 2) Another sentence *in the following paragraph of the article* notes the same decision.

Hart Island served other purposes throughout the 20th century. The new 14-day rule was a quietly introduced switch from the previous practice, which gave families or friends 30 days to claim a body. The article mentioned something about its infamous drug dealings,and how that is used in fictional accounts.

Possibly better photos of the view from the Kimmel Center, which I took recently: I leave it to someone else to decide whether to replace the one in the article. Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 11:43, 5 March 2016 (UTC), Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 22:32, 5 March 2016 (UTC). Engraved in the side of the tomb are these words:[1], On June 12, 2020, the tomb was vandalized when someone spray painted “committed genocide" on the face of the tomb. So have I. --Wetman 07:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC). Hone’s models were prestigious London squares such as Belgrave Square. No inline refs.

Anybody know? Most of the brook has been covered over, though some Village residents can claim that it flows beneath their basements and sometimes causes flooding. Sylvia A (talk) 21:09, 30 May 2013 (UTC), Another Believer (Talk) 19:48, 6 July 2014 (UTC). So what? The memorial honors the thousands of soldiers who died during the American Revolutionary War, many of whom were buried in mass graves in the square. Did it have any significant impact on their work? Pjb dinky (talk) 06:03, 7 August 2009 (UTC).

(Kings Handbook of New York, 1893) About 25 bodies a week are normally interred on the island, buried by inmates at Rikers Island jail, the sprawling complex that houses some 10,000 people awaiting trial in New York City. Nice to know this history. The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, is a war memorial located within Washington Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gain access to digital resources for all ages, including e-books, audiobooks, databases, and more. Washington Square has served as the setting in a number of literary and musical works, including William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch, Henry James's Washington Square and Joan Baez's 1975 song "Diamonds & Rust". (The bodies in Bryant Park were however relocated to Ward’s Island, and may still be there...), Soon after the ground reached its capacity for human burials, mayor Philip Hone initiated his strategy for transforming the potter’s field into a public square. I made the following changes: When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}). This leads to the park before 1822. Still not perfect but now future editors have some idea where to go from here. The late stand-up comedian Charlie Barnett did many of his live shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Washington Square Park, often filling out the entirety of the fountain auditorium area. It was turned into a parade ground in 1826. More than 20,000 people are buried beneath the park, a haven of greenery in the otherwise brick and concrete surrounds of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. They have to rent it from the city for graduation ceremonies.

But instead of a private space like London’s squares, the mayor wanted to create a free public space. Pits 20 feet by 30 feet in length were dug along 7th and Walnut Streets which were then filled by coffins piled one atop another until space in the mass grave ran out. ... Washington Square Park was known as a “potter’s field,” where criminals and people who couldn’t afford real funerals were buried. Cloudflare Ray ID: 5e6a327bbc9eee75 That elm stands on the other side of the valley the Minetta ran through.

Isn't the Hanging Tree there too? [1] An unknown number of bodies were buried beneath the square and the surrounding area.

I think there should be some reference to the fact that Washington Square Park was once a mass grave during the Cholera Prestilence.

Over the years, this name was spelled and respelled and spelled again in a variety of configurations: Minnetta, Menitti, Manetta, Minetta, Mannette, and Minetto. Coordinates: 39°56′50″N 75°09′10″W / 39.9471°N 75.1527°W / 39.9471; -75.1527. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.

The price of the land had already risen steeply, and the university paid $40,000 for lots that had been evaluated at one-tenth that price only six years earlier, an act that completely wiped out their accounts. The tomb and Washington Square are part of Independence National Historical Park.

A sense of context is lacking.

I added a reference to the appellate court's decision.

It also says that the first park design was created in, possibly, 1847, though the cited report was uncertain about that date.

[2], Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, "Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary Soldier", "Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Of The American Revolution Vandalized In Philadelphia's Washington Square", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Revolutionary_War_Soldier&oldid=983073430, Military monuments and memorials in the United States, Buildings and structures completed in 1954, Vandalized works of art in the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness", "The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts of common dangers, suffering and success" (, "In unmarked graves within this square lie thousands of unknown soldiers of Washington's Army who died of wounds and sickness during the Revolutionary War. Among them, all the namedropping could be eliminated as, in some cases, nearly unverifiable and unencyclopedic. In 2010, Pop Punk band, The Wonder Years released a song called "Washington Square Park" on their album "The Upsides".

Not only was this park used as a cemetery, I believe Madison Square Park was one, too.

However, what lies beneath that splendid, recently re-landscaped and renovated outdoor sanctuary is a bit more morbid. NYC Vintage Images. It was on private farmland, not on city land. I just did some edits - mainly correcting facts and dates in historical sections. We already have this email.

Others were laid to rest in Washington Square because they couldn’t afford to be buried privately. The surge can be attributed, at least in part, to New York City cutting the amount of time a body can remain unclaimed. More than 4,500 people have died in New York City from the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.