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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 ...
A still-legible headstone in Copp's Hill Burying Ground Benjamin Weld and his wife Nabby sold the second extension to the town for $10,000 (~$216,791 in 2023) on December 18, 1809, soon after they had bought it from Jonathan Merry, who had used it as pasture.
The headstone is typically arranged after the burial. The choice of materials (typically a long-lasting kind of stone, such as marble or granite) and the style and wording of the inscription is negotiated between the monumental mason and the family members. Because of the emotional significance of the headstone to the family members, monumental ...
List of memorials to John F. Kennedy; List of memorials to Robert E. Lee; List of statues of Vladimir Lenin; Memorials to Abraham Lincoln; List of memorials to James Madison; List of memorials to James Monroe; List of memorials to Franklin D. Roosevelt; Memorials to Theodore Roosevelt; List of statues of Stalin; List of memorials to Martin Van ...
Memorials in Ferns Cathedral graveyard. [13] John Nost (mason), English monumental mason active in late-17th-century and early-18th-century England. Memorial to Sir John Banks (d.1699) in St. Peter's Church, Aylesford, Kent, "a stupendous pile of marble, rising to the roof. Sir John, in a wig, cravat, and semi-Roman dress, stands in an elegant ...
Harriet Tubman Grave is an historic gravesite located in Fort Hill Cemetery at Auburn, in Cayuga County, New York.The granite gravestone marks the resting place of famed African-American abolitionist and Christian Harriet Tubman, who was born into slavery in Maryland in the United States in 1822.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. Mountain in South Dakota with sculptures of four U.S. presidents For the band, see Mount Rushmore (band). Mount Rushmore National Memorial Shrine of Democracy Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Mount Rushmore features Gutzon Borglum's sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore ...
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