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Forest Lawn Cemetery

Buffalo, Italy

Forest Lawn Cemetery

Forest Lawn Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Buffalo, New York, United States, founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke. It covers over 269 acres (1.1 km2) and over 165,000 are buried there, including U.S. President Millard Fillmore, First Lady Abigail Fillmore, singer Rick James, Congresswoman

Shirley Chisholm, and inventors Lawrence Dale Bell and Willis Carrier. Forest Lawn is on the National Register of Historic Places. Forest Lawn Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 1411 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke, the cemetery encompasses approximately 269 acres (1.1 km²) and serves as both a historic landscape and an active cemetery providing burial, cremation, and memorial services to the Buffalo community. In addition to its historic monuments, sculptures, and arboretum landscape, Forest Lawn remains an operating cemetery offering traditional burial, mausoleum entombment, cremation services, and columbarium niches. The cemetery contains numerous historic family mausoleums as well as modern community mausoleums available for purchase. Forest Lawn also operates a crematory and serves as a cultural and educational resource for the...

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