Meriwether Lewis Death and Burial Site

On the Natchez Trace Parkway sits an unpretentious granite cairn topped by a broken column, indicating a life cut short. Under this monument, 200 yards from Grinder's Stand cabin, lay the remains of one of America's earliest heroes, Captain Meriwether ...

Burial Mound

(Mound C)

Native American Indian of the Mississippian culture were buried in this cemetery mound sometime in the A.D. 1200s. First excavated in 1932 by owner Col. Fain King, the mound was referred to as “Mound C”. A building was constructed ...

Pioneer Burial Ground

Established in 1793 by

Col. Charles Williamson

For his little daughter

who died of Genesee Fever

Village of Bath

Marker is on West Steuben Street just west of Exchange Street, on the right.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Burial Ground Fort William Harrison

Dedicated to the memory of the courageous pioneers who so successfully defended Fort Harrison in the activities which served as a Prologue to The War of 1812

Marker can be reached from McCullough Avenue (becomes 4th Street) north of Fort Harrison ...

Old Ball Family Burial Ground

This is one of Arlington’s oldest family burial grounds. Ensign John Ball (1748- 1814), a veteran of the American Revolution (Sixth Virginia Infantry), is buried here. John Ball was the son of Moses Ball, who was one of the pioneer ...

Norton Common Burial Ground

The land which comprises this cemetery dates back to June 1702, and is the original town common. Originally called "The Common," this land consisting of approximately five acres, is the first land set apart for common use in Norton. Situated ...

Centre Burial Ground

In 1783, Nehemiah Carpenter, Samuel Baker and Jeremiah Hartshorn conveyed to the selectmen and their successors in office forever four acres of land on which the meeting house had been built for use as a town common. Mr. Carpenter also ...

Burial Site of Josette Beaubien

Josette Beaubien, a survivor of the Fort Dearborn Massacre, was buried here in 1845. She was married to Jean Baptiste Beaubien, one of Chicago's first settlers. Her brother was Claude LaFramboise, a chief of the Potawatomi Indians. Chief Alexander Robinson ...

The Law School Burial Mound

100 yards west is an aboriginal burial mound built circa A.D. 1000 by Alachua tradition peoples, ancestors of the Potano Indians who lived in Alachua County in the 16th and 17th centuries. Initially several individuals were buried in a central ...

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

Excavations for new construction in lower Manhattan in the early 1990s revealed the presence of burials dating as early as 1712.

Throughout the 18th century, the city's free and enslaved Africans buried their dead ...