Copp's Hill Burying Ground

In the 1630s, the northern-most slope of the Shawmut Peninsula (or Boston) was a prominent landmark. Settlers soon discovered its strategic overlook of the Harbor and of the Charles River to the west and found the steep hillock well-protected from ...

Old Quaker Burying Ground

1672

Here April, 1672, George Fox, founder of Quakerism, opened the first General Meeting of Friends in Maryland, marking the beginning of West River Yearly Meeting and its successor, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Site of West River Quaker Meeting House.

Marker ...

Fulton Burying Ground

In 1798 Samuel Fulton and his father John, soldiers of the American Revolution, his mother Jane Dills Fulton, brother Thomas, brother-in-law Christopher Huston and their families, made the first permanent settlement on the bank of the Ohio River in present ...

The Old Burying Ground

The Old Burying Ground

Earliest in Salisbury Center

Given May 29, 1750 by

Robert Walker of Stratford Connecticut

One of Salisbury's Original Proprietors

Earliest Dated Stone – Dr. Wade Clark – August 6 1750

Latest – Churchill Coffing – May 14, 1873

Here Lie Buried Soldiers and ...

Old Fourth Creek Burying Ground

1756-1888

Dedicated by the Presbyterian church to the memory of the pioneers and to the soldiers of the Indian wars, the Revolution and the Confederacy who lie buried here.

Built by the pioneers, this wall was reconstructed by the national government and ...

Building Atop the Burying Ground

When leaders of First Presbyterian Church decided to build an new church atop their 18th-century burying ground, they hoped to serve Baltimore’s growing west end and protect their burial place from being diverted to other uses.

Construction began in July ...

From a Burying Ground to a Park

In 1774, St. George’s Parish purchased the land around you for a cemetery. Following the American Revolution and disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Virginia, the Fredericksburg government appropriated this land for a public burying ground. The western lot line ...

Machackemech Burying Ground

The burial place of the pioneers and early settlers in this vicinity, many of them in unmarked graves.

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Cole’s Fort, built in 1755, was located about a hundred feet northwest.

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Erected by

Machackemech Chapter D. R.

Marker is at the intersection of E Main ...

Old Colony Burying Ground, 1805

Granville, Ohio, was settled in 1805 by the Licking Company, a group formed in Granville, Massachusetts, and Granby Connecticut, for the purpose of emigrating west. The Old Colony Burying Ground was defined on the first town plat of Granville in ...

Smith’s Burying Ground : Pioneer Cemetery

Side One:

(Later called the “Burnside” Cemetery.)

Smith’s Burying Ground was established in 1814 when John Smith (born 1742), Revolutionary War veteran, died and was buried here. John Smith and four of his sons and their families made the six week, ...