Confederate Burial Trench

(Stone monument)

To the Confederate Dead

in the Trenches

Erected by the U.D.C.

A.D. 1917

(Metal Tablet)

Burial Place

Confederate Soldiers

Shiloh

1862

(Bronze marker)

Unknown Soldier

Confederate States Army

Marker is on Loop road to Confederate Burial Trench 0.1 miles west of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Wilson-Leonard Brushy Creek Burial Site

In this vicinity is a prehistoric archeological site discovered in 1973 by a team of Texas Highway Department archeologists. Scientific excavations have produced evidence that the site was a major camping ground for prehistoric peoples, particularly during the Archaic Period ...

Burial Trenches and Salisbury Prison

You are facing the 18 trenches used

by the Salisbury Confederate Prison

for the burial of prisoners, most of

whom died after October 1864.

Marker is on Government Road when traveling south.

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Utah's First Pioneer Burial Site

Utah's first pioneer burial site was located just thirty feet west and two hundred feet south of

this point. Here, thirty-three Utah pioneers were buried beginning with three year-old Milton Thirlkill. This youngster from Mississippi drowned on 11 August 1847 in ...

Among Family: Poe’s Original Burial Place

He lies buried amongst his kindred ... and no stone or monument yet marks his resting-place."

J. Thomas Scharf's Chronicles of Baltimore, 1874

Edgar Allan Poe was buried here on October 8, 1849, a day after his lingering death in Baltimore's Washington ...

Original Burial Place of Edgar Allan Poe

From

October 9, 1849

until

November 17, 1875

Mrs. Maria Glemm, his mother-in-law, lies upon his right and Virginia Poe, his wife, upon his left, under the monument erected to him in this cemetery.

Marker can be reached from the ...

Segregated Burial Grounds

Historic burial traditions parallel both the societal structure and economic status of the period. Old Cemetery reveals racially distinct sections reflected in the notable absence of family plots and headstones on the hill’s slope, where a memorial honors the final ...

In This Burial Ground

In this burial ground

the first public burial ground

in the City of Anderson, S.C.,

rest fifty or more persons

known only to God.

This plaque is in honor of

those unnamed persons who

lived and died as a part

of the Anderson community.

Marker can be reached from ...

Burial Site

Quaker Cemetery bought

1833 from Darius Shadbolt

Marker is on Quaker Road 0.2 miles east of Bowerman Road (County Road 716), on the right when traveling east.

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Old Swedish Burial Ground

Site of first St. Paul's Episcopal Church, built in 1702. The grave of John Morton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence is located just south of here.

Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Street and Ave. of the States, ...