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Gate of Heaven Cemetery

Hawthorne, Italy

Gate of Heaven Cemetery

Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Avenue in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Catholic burial site. Several famous individuals are buried here including actors, athletes and politicians. Among its re

sidents is baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by many baseballs, bats and caps. Adjacent to the Garden Mausoleum is the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Division Mount Pleasant station. One train each way stops here on weekdays, and three trains each way stop here on weekends.

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