This Valentine’s Day, Mix Love And History At Green-Wood Cemetery

What is everyone doing for Valentine’s Day?

If you’d like love mixed with history this Saturday, February 14, the Green-Wood Cemetery may be a good place to go. The cemetery is offering “Love Set in Stone: A Valentine’s Trolley Tour,” from 1-3pm, when you’ll be able to learn about “historic power couples, romantic monuments, and tales of love everlasting – some triumphant, others grim,” Green-Wood says on its website.

The tour is $20 for Green-Wood and Brooklyn Historical Society members and $25 for non-members.

If you’d rather not spend any money, you can still get a dose of history and love at Green-Wood and check out the Civil War love letters on display at the cemetery’s Historic Chapel (500 25th Street), courtesy of the Brooklyn Historical Society.

And, you are always free to explore the cemetery on your own and look at the space where more than 560,000 people are buried, from composer Leonard Bernstein to Boss Tweed and thousands of Civil War veterans.

If you’d like to learn more about Green-Wood, actor John Turturro recently narrated this video about the cemetery – which was created in 1838 and is the oldest landscaped space in the entire city, predating both Central Park (which opened in 1857) and Prospect Park (which opened in 1867).

For more information about the Valentine’s Day tour, you can visit Green-Wood Cemetery’s website.