Site of Former Greenbush Cemetery Burials

Nineteenth century cemeteries were sometimes relocated as a community expanded. In 1845, land was purchased for a cemetery in the Greenbush neighborhood of Madison where St. Marys Hospital is located today. The cemetery became overcrowded with Madison's German and Irish ...

Burial site of "Elsie"

The Borden Cow

Elsie, a purebred Jersey cow with enormous

brown eyes was chosen to be the

advertising symbol for the Borden Company.

This became one of the best known and most successful

icons in the history of American marketing.

Elsie was featured at the Borden ...

The Burial Site of Captain John Herbert Dent

This U.S. Naval officer was born in Maryland

in 1782 and died at his plantation in St.

Bartholomew's Parish, S.C. in 1823. He served

as acting captain of the frigate "Constitution" in

1804 during the war with Tripoli, and was senior

officer ...

Indian Hannah Burial Site

Indian Hannah 1730-1802 The last of the tribe of Lenni-Lenape in Chester County

Marker is on Embryville Road (Route 162), on the right when traveling west.

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Wilson-Leonard Brushy Creek Burial Site

In this vicinity is a prehistoric archeological site discovered in 1973 by a team of Texas Highway Department archeologists. Scientific excavations have produced evidence that the site was a major camping ground for prehistoric peoples, particularly during the Archaic Period ...

Utah's First Pioneer Burial Site

Utah's first pioneer burial site was located just thirty feet west and two hundred feet south of

this point. Here, thirty-three Utah pioneers were buried beginning with three year-old Milton Thirlkill. This youngster from Mississippi drowned on 11 August 1847 in ...

Burial Site

Quaker Cemetery bought

1833 from Darius Shadbolt

Marker is on Quaker Road 0.2 miles east of Bowerman Road (County Road 716), on the right when traveling east.

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The Burial Sites

The Baker-Fancher emigrants buried the bodies of ten men killed during the siege somewhere within the circled wagons of the encampment located west of the current monument in the valley. Most of the Baker-Fancher party died at various locations northeast ...

John Jones 2nd Burial Site

The official Civil War roster of Company G of the Wisconsin 12th infantry lists two men named John Jones. They are listed as John Jones 1st and John Jones 2nd.

John Jones 1st gravesite has been located in the Ivy Green ...

Burial Sites of Immortal 600

The Immortal 600 were a group of Confederate officers held prisoners of war at Fort Pulaski during the bitterly cold winter of 1864-1865. They were moved here from Charleston where they had been placed in the line of artillery fire ...