“Colored Cemetery"

Not all who arrived in this "New World" came of their own free will. There were those brought in heavy iron shackles -- victims of the cruel and inhumane institution known as slavery.

According to records, 236 slaves, and 17 ...

Jonah Cemetery

Jonah Cemetery was established in 1902 when community leaders J. M. Barrington, W. S. McMakins, C. Brady, A. J. McDonald, and R. H. Northcutt purchased two acres near the San Gabriel River to be used as a cemetery. Burials were ...

Crocker Cemetery Veterans Memorial

In Memory

Dedicated

to all of those

who served

and those

who gave all

Marker is on Kansas Route 171 near 240th Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Friends Church Cemetery

In 1895, six families left the disbanded Quaker settlement of Estacado in the Lubbock area and moved to Galveston County. Here, they established the community of Friendswood, named in honor of their faith and association with the Society of Friends, ...

Historic Prospect Hill -- Omaha's Pioneer Cemetery

Founded in 1858 by Byron Reed, early Omaha real estate developer and financier, Prospect Hill is the final resting place for over 15,000 citizens. While burial permit #1 was issued for Territorial Legislator Alonzo Salisbury on October 4, 1858, many ...

Cemetery Square

This square was reserved for public use in the city's original survey and became the site of early church buildings. One hundred yards south of this point is a stone marking the site of the first Methodist Church erected in ...

Oldest Cemetery 1684

Oldest Cemetery

1684

Danbury

Erected by Mary Wooster Chapter

N.S.D.A.R.

Marker is on Wooster Street 0.1 miles from Main Street, on the left when traveling west.

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Riverview Cemetery

Riverview Cemetery, today a wedge of green between two major highways, is an oasis in the concrete and asphalt of the city where Trenton’s history is written silently in gravestones. Here in 1685, John Lambert conveyed two acres to the ...

Fairview Cemetery Veterans Monument

[Front]:

In honor of those who served their country

[Back]:

Cpl Horace M Thorne

"Bud"

World War II

Troop D 89th Cav Sqd 9th Armd Div

Died In Service Of His Country

[When facing the back, just to the right]:

Brig Gen Peter E. Genovese Jr.

US Army (Ret)

1937-2002

"Can Do ...

Vedder Family Cemetery

Vedder Family Cemetery

This historic burial plot contains the remains of descendants of Harmen Albertse Vedder, an original settler of Schenectady. He purchased the land and built a home in 1672. Harmen died around 1715 and is probably buried here.

After ...