Rosehill Cemetery

Rosehill Cemetery opened in 1859 on Roe's Hill, land owned by resident and local tavern owner Hiram Roe. City Cemetery had been Chicago's central burying ground until the city decided in the 1860s to turn it into Lincoln Park. To ...

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The City of Richmond established Shockoe Hill Cemetery in 1822 reflecting a developing nationwide trend at the time to have cities provide safe, sanitary places for burials in suburban settings. Shockoe Hill superseded the first public burial ground in Richmond ...

Oak Hill Cemetery

The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is the only known example of James Renwick's Gothic Revival ecclesiastical design in Washington, DC. The one story rectangular chapel, measuring 23 by 41 feet, was built in 1850 and sits on the highest ridge ...

Crown Hill Cemetery

Crown Hill is the city’s premier Victorian-era cemetery, and the final resting place of most of its leaders from the 1860s to the present. The cemetery is also important for its Romantic landscape design and architecturally significant buildings and structures.

Hillcrest Cemetery, Jewish section

At one time, Jews who died in Quincy were buried in Bainbridge, Georgia. After the Jewish cemetery opened in 1930, some of the early graves were moved to Quincy. The cemetery is maintained by the city. From Quincy, take U.S. ...

Cemetery Hill

Fighting Among the Tombstones

During the Civil War, Moorefield could be seen in front of you from this then-treeless hill. Beyond the town is the confluence of two watercourses that form the South Branch River, which flows north through a fertile ...

Springhill Baptist Church and Cemetery

The oldest church in Taylor County, Springhill Missionary Baptist Church was built in 1853 in the area then known as Rosehead. In 1923 the church was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan and many families fled the area in ...

Forest Home Hills Cemetery

Most would call the 1840's simpler times. But for Milwaukee's early settlers, the times called for vitally important and lasting decisions.

Soon after the city was founded in 1846, civic leaders began searching for a place where area residents could count ...

National Historic Landmark-Laurel Hill Cemetery

National Historic Landmark-Laurel Hill Cemetery

Designed by noted Scottish-American architect John Notman in 1836, Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery is the second major rural cemetery in the United States, and Notman's first known commission.

Its romantic landscape, commemorative monuments, and eclectic architecture ...

Hilltop Cemetery/Cemetery Hill

This African American cemetery, known to locals as Hilltop Cemetery, was established during the 1880s. The oldest grave stone found is dated 1889.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.