When Hamilton died in 1741, he willed his lands to his son, also named Andrew. It was purchased in 1735 by the famous Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton. The land that would become The Woodlands was originally a 250-acre (1.0 km 2) tract in Blockley Township on the west bank of the Schuylkill River. Evans, which at 150 feet, is both the tallest gravestone in the United States and the tallest obelisk gravestone in the world. Among the tombstones at Woodlands cemetery is the tombstone of Dr Thomas W. More than 30,000 people are buried at the cemetery. It includes a Federal-style mansion, a matching carriage house and stable, and a garden landscape that in 1840 was transformed into a Victorian rural cemetery with an arboretum of over 1,000 trees. The Woodlands is a National Historic Landmark District on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
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