Asylum Gravesite

Resting Place for Students and Facility

The American School for the Deaf was not impervious to the childhood diseases and misfortunes that haunted the 19thcentury. Sadly some students died from illness and accidents while attending school ...

Cogswell Family Gravesite

The Father and Daughter that Changed the World

The Cogswell Family and their descendants transformed the deaf community in North America. Dr. Mason Cogswell was a highly respected physician. Shortly after he graduated as valedictorian from Yale ...

John Brown Farm and Gravesite

John Brown (1800--1859) considered this farm, a National Historic Landmark and New York State Historic Site, his home during the ten years leading up to the infamous 1859 raid on Harper's Ferrywhere he was killed. He requested to be ...

Billy the Kid Gravesite

The immortal William McCarthy also known as William Bonney, but made famous as Billy the Kid, is a perfect example of the wonderful history of the American West. Billy the Kid is a name that continues to live in American ...

Crispus Attucks Gravesite

Boston, Massachusetts became the center of tension and rebellion in America during the years leading up to the American Revolution. On the streets of Boston, fights frequently broke out between American Patriots and British soldiers.

Problems came to a climax ...

Maj. Gen. Baron Johann de Kalb's Original Gravesite

Johann de Kalb (1721 - 1780) had a distinguished career in the French army and later served as a spy for the French Court, touring the British American colonies in 1768. He returned to America with the Marquis de Lafayette ...

West Allen Williams Memorial Gravesite

"To All Who May Come...Remember"

"Embraced by the gratitude of an entire community and held in the love and admiration of a descended family, here rests the earthen tabernacles of our beloved founder, West Allen Williams, and family. Reverently moved from ...

General John and Annie K. Bidwell Gravesite

This marks the location of

General John and

Annie K. Bidwell’s

Gravesite

Founders and Benefactors of Chico

Marker can be reached from Mangrove Avenue near 881 Mangrove Avenue.

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Gravesite of Lt (jg) Thomas E Zellars -Namesake of USS Zellars D

Grantville native Thomas E Zellars (1898-1924) graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1920 and reported for duty aboard the USS Mississippi. As turret commander he rose to the rank of lieutenant. In 1924, an explosion and fire engulfed his ...

Gravesite

Martin Van Buren

1782 – 1862

Governor of New York

Eighth President of

the United States

Marker is on Albany Avenue (County Route 21), on the right when traveling west.

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