Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery

Established in 1882 by German, Austrian, Swiss and French settlers, the community of Sandoval developed near Turkey Creek. In March 1893, residents founded Zion Lutheran Church, with the Rev. J. Rode as the first pastor. Church members established this cemetery ...

The Methodist Cemetery

Burials are thought to have

started here in the 1820’s.

The earliest legible date is

1836. Old area family names

include Braddock, Prickett,

Riley, Kirby and Stackhouse.

Marker is at the intersection of Branch Street and Filbert Street, on the right when traveling east on Branch ...

The San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery

This Cemetery, earlier known as Morningside Cemetery, is the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in San Fernando Valley. It was used from the early 1800's until 1939. It was legally abandoned in 1959. In this same year Mrs. Nellis S. Noble donated ...

Old Southeast Cemetery

Oldest marked grave in Putnam County

Historical Landmark

Old Southeast Cemetery

Here rest our early settlers

and six pastors of

Southeast Church

Oldest stone – 1751 • Dedicated June 1970

Southeast Museum Association, Brewster, N.Y.

Marker ...

Bethesda Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

In 1879 William Lee Henderson (b1808), his wife Eleanor Shelby (b1817) and their nine children moved from their Alabama home to Texas by wagon train. Church records indicate worship services were held in a shelter built by the Hendersons shortly ...

The African American Cemetery

Discovering Madison

"I walk in the graveyard, I walk through the graveyard

To lay this body down.

I lay in the grave and stretch out my arms;

I lay this body down."

-African American spiritual from the era of slavery, as recorded in James Weldon ...

The Madison Family Cemetery

Discovering Madison

"The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished an perpetuated."

-James Madison, Advice to My Country, 1834

The Madison Family Cemetery is the understated resting place for two of ...

The Restoration Movement / Doty Settlement Cemetery

Side A: The Restoration Movement

In the early years of the nineteenth century, a religious unrest known as the Second Great Awakening spread across much of the American frontier. Among the most influential of the evolving religious organizations were the Campbellites, ...

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 Lee Family Cemetery

This is the burial site of Henry Lee (d. 1787) and his wife Lucy Grymes (d. 1792). They were married in 1753, and their home, Leesylvania, stood on the ridge to the east. Henry Lee was County Lieutenant and Presiding ...