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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 ...
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.
Washington's tomb at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., originally designed to entomb the body of George Washington.. Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia.
A stone marker indicates the approximate location of the second meeting house which stood from c. 1707 to 1786 on a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) lot adjacent to the burying ground. In 2008, the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society undertook an archaeological dig, locating the remains of the second meeting house foundation. [11]
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.
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 headstone with the name Peter Wiesenhoefer sits surrounded in weeds and grass next to a few other headstones on an empty lot in Doyle Street off of Van Dyke in Detroit on Thursday, May 16, 2024 ...
West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.It was founded in 1869, is 200 acres (81 hectares) in size, and contains the burials of many notable people.