National Cemetery Virtual Tour - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)

🪦 Syracuse is lucky to have many old, hauntingly beautiful graveyards. Oakwood is the largest and most well-known cemetery in Syracuse, sprawling 160 acres. It opened in 1859 at the height of the salt industry boom, just before the Civil War. Its elaborate mausoleums feature Central New York’s most prominent names, and some monuments are considered works of art. Oakwood’s landscape architect Howard Daniels brilliantly designed the cemetery in a Victorian park motif, inviting visitors to linger