Oak Hill Cemetery-Bartow

This cemetery contains the remains of nearly 60 Confederate veterans including Jacob Summerlin and Evander McIver Law. Jacob Summerlin was a successful cattle businessman who was known as the Cattle King of South Florida, and as the King of the ...

Plantation Cemetery at Betton Hills

The site is all that remains of a much larger cemetery for African Americans dating from the pre-Civil War era through the 1940s. It was the main burial ground for black slaves and servants from the Betton Plantation as well ...

Oconee Hill Cemetery

Oconee Hill Cemetery was purchased in 1855 by the City of Athens when further burials were prohibited in the old town cemetery on land owned by The University of Georgia. In 1856, the City formed a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees ...

Boothill Cemetery

Named Boothill because so many of its occupants went to their deaths with their boots on, this cemetery was the burying ground for Coulson, Yellowstone River town existing from 1877-1885 on the edge of what was to be Billings. Most ...

Maple Hill Cemetery

Brief Peace in the Midst of War

The brick church formerly on this site was named Mount Zion Presbyterian Church. The congregation stopped meeting here after Federal forces occupied Petersburg in May 1862, took over the church building, and began using ...

Grove Hill Cemetery

Grove Hill Cemetery, the first public cemetery in Darlington, was chartered in 1889. Citizens founded it “on account of the health of our town but also on account of the great scarcity of space in the church cemeteries.” The original ...

Foresthill Protestant Cemetery

This cemetery started in the early 1850's during the gold rush. The earliest monument is dated 1858.

This plaque erected January 1994

Donated by the Foresthill Cemetery Committee and Ruhkala Monument Co., Rocklin

Marker is on Church Street, on the ...

Oak Hill Cemetery

This nonsectarian cemetery was dedicated on June 27, 1848 before a crowd of 3,000 people. The establishment of the cemetery reflected a transition from small family or religious cemeteries. Oak Hill Cemetery has been enlarged several times and occupies 65 ...

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church / Lowther's Hill Cemetery

Marker Front:

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, organized by 1785, first met in a nearby school. It built a sanctuary here in 1791; that year Cashaway Baptist Church merged with it. In 1818 the congregation moved about 2 mi. ...

Hillside Cemetery Veterans Memorial

Dedicated To The Memory

Of Those Who Served

Their Country In All Wars

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Marine Street and Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org