Historic Decatur Cemetery

The oldest known publicly owned burial ground in metro Atlanta, the Decatur Cemetery is believed to predate the city’s 1823 incorporation. The first written record is an 1832 act of legislature providing “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Ground.”

Expanded many times, ...

Historic Albany Rural Cemetery

Est. 1841

Burial site of Pres. Arthur,

governors, statesmen

and private citizens.

Noted for it’s natural beauty,

sculptures & architecture.

Marker is at the intersection of Menand Road (New York Route 378) and Van Rensselaer Blvd, on the right when traveling west on Menand Road.

Courtesy ...

Historic Oaklawn Cemetery

This hallowed ground set aside as a town burial site in 1850 "for whites & slaves alike" is the resting place for many of Tampa's founding fathers, mayors, and county officers.

A governor of Florida, two Supreme Court Judges, framers ...

Historic Lakeview Cemetery

This cemetery is owned by St. John Baptist Church in Edgewater and operated by Scott-McPherson Funeral Home, Inc. US Steel Corporation previously owned the area and it is historically associated with the Edgewater Mining Camp community established for the workers ...

Historic Woodlawn Cemetery

Ohio Historical Marker

Founded in 1876 by a group of Toledo businessmen, Woodlawn Cemetery was designed in the tradition of the country's "rural cemetery" movement, which was first popularized in Europe in the 1830s. This movement reflects the change in American ...

Historic Cemetery

Known as the Scott Hall Cemetery, it dates from the late 18th century. Here will be found the grave of Commodore Whaley of the Maryland Navy who was killed in the Battle of the Barges in the Chesapeake Bay near ...

Cumming Historic Cemetery

In 1834, Moses Whitsett was the first person buried on the property which in 1840 became the cemetery for the Baptist Church and the Presbyterian Church. In 1856, the Presbyterian Church disbanded. When the Baptist Church relocated, the cemetery became ...

Historic Gautier Cemetery

Originally a burial site for the Gautier family, this cemetery contains the graves of Fernando Gautier and Henry Gautier (builder of Twelve Oaks). Members of the Clifford, Fayard, Fuller, LeBatard, Pelham, Peterson, Quinn, Saucier, Vaughan, and Ziegler families were later ...

Union Soldiers Buried in Historic Cemetery

Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery

This cemetery

holds the remains of

18 California Volunteers who died

at Fort Lowell during the Civil War and a

Civil War Veteran of the U.S. Colored Troops.

Their graves are marked with a GAR star.

Sgt. John C. McQuade - Co.B, ...

Historic Prospect Hill -- Omaha's Pioneer Cemetery

Founded in 1858 by Byron Reed, early Omaha real estate developer and financier, Prospect Hill is the final resting place for over 15,000 citizens. While burial permit #1 was issued for Territorial Legislator Alonzo Salisbury on October 4, 1858, many ...