Woodlawn

Residential neighbourhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is located to the south of Hyde Park and southwest of Jackson Park. It houses a middle- and working-class African-American community.

Woodlawn

Town in Howard County, Maryland; population (1990) 32,90. It is located 11 km/7 mi northwest of Baltimore city centre. Woodlawn houses the Social Security Complex, the fifth-largest US Federal building and the administrative and record-keeping centre of the Social Security system. Residential developments are extensive, and there are industrial, corporate, and retail parks.

The town was formerly known as Powhatan, after a company that owned a mill here, and took its present name when the Woodlawn Cemetery Company bought much property in the area following a 1902 fire that destroyed the mill.

Woodlawn

Residential section in the north-central Bronx, New York. It lies between Van Cortlandt Park, to the west, and the Bronx River and Wakefield, to the east. Yonkers, in Westchester County, lies to the north. The neighbourhood takes its name from Woodlawn Cemetery (1863), a burial ground to the south that contains the graves, among others, of financiers Jay Gould and F W Woolworth, writer Herman Melville, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, and a number of prominent musicians, including Duke Ellington and Miles Davis.

During the Revolution Colonial munitions were stored in the area, which was subsequently called Washingtonville, and later Wakefield.