Riverside Park
Wooded riverfront park stretching four miles along the Hudson, home to the largest mausoleum in North America.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Riverside Park centers on Ulysses Grant's funeral in 1885, when more than a million and a half people turned out and marchers carried his body six miles north to this hillside above the Hudson. It covers the temporary tomb built in just nine days, the permanent mausoleum that followed twelve years later, and his widow Julia's insistence on being buried beside him here.
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