First Marked Burial

Elijah H. Fleming

Marker Front:

There may have been burials in this cemetery prior to 1848, however, this grave is the earliest one with an engraved headstone which shows a date. His daughter Mary, who died at approximately 17 years of age ...

Site of Former Greenbush Cemetery Burials

Nineteenth century cemeteries were sometimes relocated as a community expanded. In 1845, land was purchased for a cemetery in the Greenbush neighborhood of Madison where St. Marys Hospital is located today. The cemetery became overcrowded with Madison's German and Irish ...

Burial site of "Elsie"

The Borden Cow

Elsie, a purebred Jersey cow with enormous

brown eyes was chosen to be the

advertising symbol for the Borden Company.

This became one of the best known and most successful

icons in the history of American marketing.

Elsie was featured at the Borden ...

Sailor's Burial Ground

In this burial ground, hallowed to the "men who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters," are interred ship captains and seamen from many lands - America, Norway, Sweden, England, Scotland, Ireland, and ...

Old Spring Valley Burial Ground

The historic cemetery directly in the rear of the Behnke farm contains the graves of descendants of early settlers in this area including a least two local farmer-militiamen of the American Revolution, Jacobus Brouwer and Henry Banta, as well as ...

Friends Burial Ground

In 1804, Miami Monthly Meeing purchased this land to use as a graveyard. Burials were made without regard to status or family association, but rather by date of death. Some of the earliest graves are marked with a plain rock ...

Ancient Burial Ground

Meriden School For Boys

The 30 to 40 boys buried on this site were forgotten children of their time. Delinquent, orphaned or abandoned they came to live at the Connecticut School for Boys, a reform school that occupied these grounds from ...

Civil War Union Burials

(Front):

One each side of this marker lie the remains of approximately 2300 Union soldiers who died as prisoners in the Florence Prison Stockade, between September 1864 and February 1865. The Stockade was located across Cemetery Street on Stockade Road. Burials ...

Grave Markers from Slave Burial Grounds

It has been documented that the earliest settlers of the Tappan Patent owned slaves; indeed, Daniel DeClark owned two slaves when he lived on this site. These grave stones are attributed to a cemetery on farm land, once owned by ...

The Burial Site of Captain John Herbert Dent

This U.S. Naval officer was born in Maryland

in 1782 and died at his plantation in St.

Bartholomew's Parish, S.C. in 1823. He served

as acting captain of the frigate "Constitution" in

1804 during the war with Tripoli, and was senior

officer ...