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1. Gen. George Custer. West Point, New York The Civil War general most famous for his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Big Horn can be found in the West Point Cemetery alongside many other ...
Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Rochester, New York, United States.Founded in 1838, it is the burial site of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.Situated on 196 acres (79 ha) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people.
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
Aerial view of Laurel Hill Cemetery (on the left) near the Schuylkill River and nearby Mount Vernon Cemetery (on the right) The Yellow Fever Memorial was built in 1855 to honor Philadelphia's "Doctors, Druggists and Nurses" who helped fight the epidemic in Portsmouth, Virginia [8] The cemetery was designed by John Notman with strings of terraces that descend to the Schuylkill River
Feb. 20—Kate Kingsbury's headstone is returning home. That is, the historic headstone commemorating the long-dead pioneer of the Santa Fe Trail has been cleaned up, power dusted and framed and ...
The Mark Howard monument, one of Cedar Hill's most famous. Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the 18-foot (5.5 m) tall pink-granite pyramid, and life-sized angel statue, erected in memory of Mark Howard and his wife, Angelina Lee Howard.
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
The Titanic Memorial, Belfast. Memorials and monuments to victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic exist in a number of places around the world associated with Titanic, notably in Belfast, Liverpool and Southampton in the United Kingdom; Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada; and New York City and Washington, D.C. in the United States.