The Carriage Gates of Westminster Burying Ground

Westminster's carriage gates, completed in 1815, were among the nation's first examples of Egyptian Revival architecture. Commissioned by the First Presbyterian Church, the gates were designed by Maximilian Godefroy (1765-ca.1840), a French architect who spent 15 productive years in Baltimore.

Westminster Hall & Burying Ground:

Where Baltimore's History Rests in Peace

Welcome to Westminster Burying Ground, one of Baltimore's oldest graveyards and the burial place of Edgar Allan Poe. This introduction is the first of many interpretive signs describing Westminster's origins and significance, and some ...

Smithville Burying Ground

“Nor even this hour shall want its charm / For side-by-side still fondly we’ll keep / And calmly in each others arms / Together linked go down the deep.” —From the marker for Emeline L. Taylor and Major George Taylor ...

The Village Burying Ground

Established before 1790 holds in many unmarked and unknown graves the remains of those courageous men and women pioneers on the frontier of downeast Maine. Sea captains, fishermen and farmers, shipwrights and hotelmen, selectmen and legislators, their wives and children, ...

Early Village Burying Ground

Site of

Early Village Burying Ground.

Many graves were removed to

Oak Hill Cemetery in 1897

to create Myers Park

Marker is on Park Place west of Park Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Purdy Burying Ground

Pre-Revolutionary place of interment of one of Rye's early families. This tract of land was purchased by Joseph Purdy from John Budd in 1685.

Marker can be reached from Milton Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Corporation Burying Ground

and other Fredericksburg Cemeteries

The park around you was once known as the Corporation Burying Ground. Burials occurred here from 1787 through 1853 and included Dr. Charles Mortimer, who had been Mary Washington's personal physician. He also served as Fredericksburg's first ...

The Cemetery on Burying Ground Hill

1695 - 1890

These stones from the first cemetery in Waterbury, now the site of Library Park, were placed here at the suggestion of various patriotic organizations

Marker is on Meadow Street 0.1 miles south of Grand Street, on the left when ...

The Burying Ground – For Colored Paupers

The Garden of Lilies

This colored paupers’ cemetery was originally founded in 1895 by William Forrester as a part of Greenwood Memorial Cemetery in Henrico County. Many of the colored cemeteries in the city were overgrown due to lack of appropriate ...

Olde East Street Burying Grounds

Olde East Street Burying Grounds – before 1766 to 1856

This marker fondly and respectfully commemorates for all time, the contributions of our early citizens to the establishment of our Town's sturdy character.

Here lie our earliest settlers, sharing ...