Salem Fields Cemetery
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Salem Fields Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 775 Jamaica Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, within the Cemetery Belt. It was founded in 1852 by Con
The main entrance to Salem Fields Cemetery
Sign flanking the entrance to Salem Fields Cemetery
Lip Pike, first Jewish player in Major League Baseball
Robert Marshall was an American forester, writer and wilderness activist who is best remembered as the person who spearheaded the 1935 founding of the Wilderness Society in the United States. Marshall
Salem Fields Cemetery
…Leonard Lewisohn (1847–1902), mining magnate, banker, philanthropist; older brother of Adolph Lewisohn Bob Marshall (1901–1939), wilderness activist, forester, author Louis B. Marshall (1856–1929), constitutional lawyer, conservationist, Jewish leader, father of Bob…
Whiteface Mountain, the fifth-highest mountain in New York and the first High Peak that Bob Marshall climbed in 1918
Snowden Mountain in the Brooks Range was named for Marshall's hunting partner.
Four founders of The Wilderness Society: Bernard Frank, Harvey Broome, Bob Marshall, and Benton MacKaye. Picture taken in the Smokies on January 26, 1936
Bob Marshall's footstone