Walking Tour: Historic Flushing Cemetery

Queens Historical Society President and historian, James Driscoll and horticulturist Thomas Gaines will be conducting a walking tour of Historic Flushing Cemetery. This cemetery contains the graves of many famous people such as that of Louis Armstrong and Bernard Baruch. It was planned with the beauty of nature in mind and great care has been taken to maintain its garden-like atmosphere while preserving the many horticultural specimens on its grounds. We will explore the history of the cemetery and a selection of the notables. Numerous specimen trees associated with the horticultural history of Flushing will pointed out, as they display their fall foliage.

Admission: Members $10.00, Non-members $15.00. Price includes commemorative journal. Meet at the front gate of Flushing Cemetery, located at 46th Avenue and Pigeon Meadow Road.