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Screven Cemetery

Here are buried William Screven (1624–1713) and other members of his family. A native of England, he migrated to Kittery, Me., and was persecuted by New England authorities for non-conformity. He and other members of the Kittery Church came to ...

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Eanes Cemetery

The establishment of this cemetery in 1874 provided for the burial of travelers and residents of eastern Travis County who did not have a family graveyard. The land was donated by early Eanes settlers William and Sophia Teague, who also ...

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Upper Springfield Meeting House and Cemetery

Historical Site

This Site was placed in the National

and New Jersey State Historical Registers

in 1979.

The Meeting House, situated at the

intersection of two Indian Trails, is one

of the oldest in Burlington County.

Early Quakers worshipped here and

are resting in the Burial Grounds.

Marker is ...

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Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery Gate

This Gate Is the Gift

of

Columbia University

In the City of New York

In Grateful Memory

of

Samuel Johnson

the

First President of King’s College

In the Province of New York

1754 – 1763 A.D.

And of His Son

William Samuel Johnson

the

First President of Columbia College

In the City of New ...

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Rosemary Cemetery

Opened in 1931, Rosemary Cemetery was originally established on twenty acres of land given by Edward W. Crayton, a prominent Naples citizen and president of the Naples Improvement Company. It served as the town's only cemetery until 1955. The graves ...

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Monroe Cemetery

Ira and Ransom Gleason, father and uncle to Charlotte and Francis Marion Rous set aside the original acre of land for this cemetery, from the land they obtained through the Public Lands Act of 1820. This plaque in memory of ...

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Bethany Cemetery

This cemetery was established in the late 1800s when burial space set aside for African Americans in Austin's historic Oakwood Cemetery was no longer available. The oldest recorded burial is that of infant Hellen Moore in 1879. C. W. Jones ...

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Greenwood Cemetery Wall

1871

The wall was built primarily because of the controversy between Council Grove and Parkerville and their fight to secure the permanent location for the county seat.

Jobs were created by both towns and workers were imported to swell the number of ...

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Old Slave Cemetery

Founded 1672

Rededicated May 17, 1964

Restored by the Boy Scouts of Bergenfield.

Marker is on Cedar Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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African American Baptist Church Cemetery

Francis Jackson, a freed slave, purchased 7 ¾ acres of woodland here in 1868. Later it would include the black cemetery and “a plain neat little church” built about 1873. The Pastor, Rev. Nicholas Fr. Jackson, lived nearby. The cemetery ...

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