Ye Olde Robbins Burial Place

1695

Erected 1938 by

James & C. Palmer West

great grandsons of Joseph

& Elizabeth Robbins &

George & Charlotte Robbins

Sproule

Marker is on Stone Tavern Road (County Road 524) 0.1 miles east of East Branch Road, on the left when traveling east.

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Copena Burial Mound

Copena Indians built this mound with baskets of dirt some 2000 years ago. The Copena name was derived from their use of copper and galena (lead ore) found in their burials along with gorgets and celts. The mounds were a ...

Old Negro Burial Ground

The land beyond this tunnel was once part of a cemetery for slaves and poor free blacks. The exact size and shape is unknown as is the number of persons once interred. What happened to their remains is a mystery ...

Indian Hannah Burial Site

Indian Hannah 1730-1802 The last of the tribe of Lenni-Lenape in Chester County

Marker is on Embryville Road (Route 162), on the right when traveling west.

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Slave Burial Ground

In colonial times this was the site of a slave burial ground. In 1784 slaves comprised almost one forth of the population of the township.

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Avenue and Lakeview Avenue, on the left when traveling ...

Burial

JR1046B

Burial of a European man, estimated age mid-thirties, interred with a captain’s leading staff. This is likely the grave of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, the “prime moving” force here at Jamestown.

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Marker can be reached from Colonial ...

Van Schaick Burial Plot

First Settlers of Cohoes

And Owners of Half Moon

Patent Buried Here

Marker can be reached from Delaware Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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Princess Burial Mound

Ancient people built this mound to mark a young woman's grave. The mound was the last in a line that once bordered the western side of the ancient community of Aztalan and the only one that contained a burial. Her ...

Burial Place of Twenty-Nine Confederate Soldiers

Erected by the United States

to mark the burial place of

twenty-nine Confederate soldiers

who died at Fort McHenry, Maryland,

while prisoners of war,

and whose remains were there buried,

but subsequently removed to this section,

where the individual graves

Slave Burial Ground in Old Round Rock Cemetery

Near the gravesite of outlaw Sam Bass, one-half acre of Old Round Rock Cemetery was set aside for slave burials. Enclosed by cedar posts and barbed wire, sites are marked head and foot with large limestone rocks. Some rocks are ...