Richmond’s African Burial Ground

Richmond Slave Trail

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“Se wo were fin a wosankofa a yenkyi.”

“It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”

-A proverb of the Akan people of West Africa

An elder once said that cemeteries are not for the ...

Site of School House and Burial Ground

German Society of Franklin Twp

Lutheran Calvinist Reformed

and

Mennonite Congregation

1795-1908

Marker is at the intersection of Old Route 30 (U.S. 30) and Flohrs Church Road, on the right when traveling west on Old Route 30.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Darnall’s Chance Burial Vault

An 18th century underground brick burial vault containing the remains of nine unidentified individuals was discovered in 1987 during an archaeological survey of the rear yard.

Evidence suggests that the vault was built by James Wardrop, a wealthy Upper Marborough merchant ...

Multiple Burials

One of the oldest burial grounds in the Mississippi Valley, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is still in use, from its beginning in 1789 it has been the custom to make multiple burials in the tombs and vaults when space ...

Burial Place of General Ethan Allen

Born 1738 – Died 1789

The mortal remains of Ethan Allen, Vermont leader, fighter, writer and philosopher, lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue, but his spirit is in Vermont now.

Marker can be reached from Colchester Avenue 0.3 miles east ...

Friends Burial Ground

A.D. 1676

This oak tree, a survivor of the original forest, was standing here when Salem was founded by John Fenwick in 1675. It is eighty-eight feet high and its foliage covers one-quarter of an acre.

“This tablet was erected on ...

Burial: A Most Disagreeable Task

The treatment of soldiers killed in action depended on which army held the battlefield after the guns fell silent. At South Mountain a few men from each Union regiment were assigned to burial details. To prevent the spread of disease, ...

Burial Site of Chief Solano

In the vicinity of this plaque is the burial site of Chief Sem Yeto, christianized Francisco Solano. Chief of the Suisun Tribe "their word for west winds" sub-group of the Patwin Indians. The village was located near Rockville and he ...

Patrick Calhoun Burial Grounds

5.5 miles southeast is the burial ground of Patrick and Martha Caldwell Calhoun, Parents of John C. Calhoun; Deputy Surveyor 1756; First Representative from Up Country to Commons House of Assembly, 1769-1772; Member of First Provincial Congress, 1775; Second, 1775-1776; ...

Burial Site of those who fell in the Battle of Princeton

Near here lie buried the

American and British officers

and soldiers

who fell in the Battle of Princeton

January 3rd, 1777

Here freedom stood by slaughtered friend and foe, and ere the wrath paled or that sunset died, looked through the ages; then, with eyes ...