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The city of Columbus is the location of 183 of these properties and districts, including all of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the remaining properties and districts are listed separately. Another 3 properties were once listed but have been removed.
Green Lawn Cemetery is an active historic private rural cemetery located in Columbus, Ohio, in the United States.Organized in 1848 and opened in 1849, the cemetery was the city's premier burying ground in the 1800s and beyond.
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
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 ...
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [6]
Re-discovered in 1991 during excavations for a new federal building, this former burial ground that contains the remains of more than 400 free and enslaved Africans buried during the 17th and 18th centuries was designated a National Historic Landmark memorial in 1993. [16] Agate Fossil Beds. Nebraska
It features the willow tree motif, and is in the City of London Church of St Magnus-the-Martyr, near London Bridge. Thomas Rawlins (1727–1789) A Norwich-based monument mason with many examples of his work in several churches there. Reeves of Bath, English, active c. 1768 to the 1860s in Bath, Somerset
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.