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 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 ...

Hurricane of 1928 Mass Burial Site Historical Marker

On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee, Many of the 1,800 to 3,000 fatalities occurred when the Lake Okeechobee dike collapsed, flooding the populated south ...

McWilliam Park Whale Burial Site

Whales (generally humpback or southern-right) can provide a magnificent spectacle off this coastline during their annual migration south, from September to November.

Many long-time residents of Tuross Head can recall the arrival of a whale on the beach below, in November, ...

John McCaffery Burial Site

John McCaffary was hanged in Kenosha on August 21, 1851, for the murder of his wife and buried here in an unmarked grave. Public outrage over his execution resulted in legislation that abolished the death penalty in Wisconsin on July ...

Crawford - Capper Burial Site

Samuel Crawford, publisher, attorney,

farmer, and financial agent, served

as Third Governor of Kansas, 1856-1868,

and as head of the 19th Kansas Volunteer

Cavalry, 1868-1869. His wife, Isabel,

the daughter of Enoch Chase, a founder

of Topeka, at age 18 became the youngest

First Lady of Kansas.

Arthur ...

Baxter Springs Massacre Burial Site

Civil War Tour

First burial site for victims of the Baxter Springs Massacre and the attack on Ft. Blair. In 1869, the bodies were moved to the National Cemetary plot west of town.

Marker is on 6th Street near Military Avenue (U.S. ...

Burial Site

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . this Day there was two men Buried from our Regt.”

- Lt. Jonathan Burton, October 4, 1776

This small stone, engraved “N. Richardson of Staddard Eng died 1760,” may mark the only identified ...

Chief Wahbememe Burial Site

Side 1

Potawatomi Chief Wahbememe (White Pigeon) was a signer of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which placed Michigan Great Lakes forts in U.S. hands. The chief was known as a friend to the white settlers in Michigan. According ...

Albemarle Barracks Burial Site

"In 1779 4,000 prisoners, British and their German auxiliaries, captured at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, marched over 600 miles to quarters, called 'The Barracks', situated a half mile north of this site. Traditionally, some of these prisoners who ...