James Bridger Gravesite

picture of Jim Bridger

James Bridger

1804 · 1881

Celebrated as a hunter, trapper, fur trader, and guide. Discovered Great Salt Lake 1824, the South Pass 1827. Visited Yellowstone Lake and Geysers 1830. Founded Ft. Bridger 1843. Opened Overland Route ...

Gravesite of General John Charles Frémont

1813 – 1890

Atop Rockland Cemetery lies the grave of he whose exploration in the 1840s opened the way west for countless settlers, who issued the first Emancipation Proclamation and who saved the west for the Union in 1861.

From the ashes ...

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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The John Martin Shuford Gravesite

Buried here is Loyalist John Martin Shuford who died June 22, 1780 of wounds received in the Battle of Ramsour's Mill. His grave was originally marked with an old headstone and footstone. In 1997 the Lincoln County Historical Association and ...

The Patriot Captains' Gravesite

Tradition holds that buried at this brick enclosure are Patriot Captains John Dobson and John Bowman of Burke County, Dobson's daughter Nancy, and her husband Wallace Alexander. Dobson and Bowman were mortally wounded in the Battle of Ramsour's Mill, June ...

General Smallwood's Gravesite

General William Smallwood

A hero of the American Revolution

and a native of Maryland

Commissioned Colonel in 1776

Brigadier General in 1777

Major General in 1780

Elected Governor of Maryland in 1785

Died February 14, 1792

Erected over his remains by the Maryland Society, Sons of the American ...

War of 1812 Gravesites

Two War of 1812 soldiers while on a march from Plattsburgh to Sackets Harbor, died and are buried on this historic spot.

Marker is on Russell-Pierrepont Road (County Route 24) 1.3 miles south of New York Route 56, on the left ...

Gravesite of Bishop Peter Spencer (1779-1843)

And His Devoted Wife, Annes

Born a slave, Bishop Spencer was the father of Delaware’s independent Black church movement. In 1813, he founded the Union Church of Africans, presently known as the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. The mother AUMP church ...

The Gravesite of Lansing A. Wilcox

Lansing A. Wilcox, last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Civil War, was born in Kenosha March 3, 1846. In February 1864 he enlisted from Chippewa County in F Company, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, returning to the Cadott community in 1866. A ...

Colonnade and Gravesite

This colonnade was originally part of Mathew Newkirk’s home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Later called St. George’s Hall. The house was designed by Thomas U. Walter, who later designed the dome on the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D. C. In ...