Fair Prospect Cemetery Montgomery County

Atop this hill lies Fair Prospect Cemetery, established in the 1840s as part of Fair Prospect Church. Land was donated for the church and cemetery by Benjamin Mitchell (1765-1848) and his wife Jane Scrimpton Mitchell (1775-1850). The location of their ...

Maple Avenue Cemetery

Patterson 200 Years

Maple Avenue Cemetery

(And Combined Church Cemeteries)

Earliest Recorded Grave, 1792

The Combined Cemeteries

At the close of the Revolution, in 1782, when all the lands of Beverly Robinson were seized by the State Legislature and sold at auction, ...

Old Brookville Church and Cemetery

First permanent Church in Brookville

was built by Methodists 1820.

It was occupied by

Methodists 1821 - 1839

Presbyterians 1839 - 1855

Lutherans 1855 - 1922

Baptists since 1953

Many Brookville early settlers are buried in this cemetery including four Revolutionary ...

Blandford Church and Cemetery

The brick church on Well’s Hill, now known as Old Blandford Church, was built between 1734 and 1737, the British General Phillips was buried in the churchyard in 1781. In the cemetery is a monument to Captain McRae and the ...

Fort Brooke Cemetery

During the Second Seminole War (1835-42) the U.S. Army established a cemetery at this site for soldiers, civilian employees, and Indians. In 1883, about 20 soldiers were removed to Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola. In time the grave sites became obliterated, ...

James Cemetery / Major John James

Side A: James Cemetery

Major John James (1772-1854) established James Cemetery in 1828 on and around a Native American mound that is the only significant ancient mound remaining in the city of Jackson. The mound is about 70 feet in diameter ...

Old City Cemetery

c. 1831

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.

Marker is on West Church Street (Georgia Route 24) 0 miles west of Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

Steen Family Cemetery

The family cemetery of Lt. Col. James Steen (d. 1781), S.C. militia officer during the American Revolution, is on his plantation nearby, along Thicketty Creek. Steen, who commanded units in several campaigns from 1775 to 1781, was killed in 1781 ...

Peacock Cemetery

Adonijah Peacock, a casualty of

the gunpowder explosion of 1777

lies here among several

generations of his family

descendants.

1847-1997

Marker is at the intersection of Chairville Road and Marlton Pike (U.S. 70), on the right when traveling north on Chairville Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Zion Union Cemetery

Eighty-eight African Americans from Mercersburg volunteered to defend the Union during the Civil War. At least 36 of those veterans lie in Mercersburg Zion Union Cemetery, established in 1876 by local Black citizens.

By 1850 Mercersburg had 26 freedman households. Many ...