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The Myles Standish Burial Ground (also known as Old Burying Ground or Standish Cemetery) in Duxbury, Massachusetts is, according to the American Cemetery Association, the oldest maintained cemetery in the United States. The 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) burying ground is the final resting place of several well-known Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower ...
The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street.It is the burial location of Revolutionary War-era patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine.
May 27, 2003. Mount Auburn Cemetery, located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United States. It is the burial site of many prominent Boston Brahmins, and is a National Historic Landmark. Dedicated in 1831 and set with classical monuments in a rolling landscaped terrain, [ 2 ] it marked a ...
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago. Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip. Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island (listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994) Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington. German Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth.
Sep. 4—A burial stone dating to 1794, the oldest in the Middle Village Cemetery in Springfield, received a roadside historical marker Friday, Aug. 30, funded by the private William C. Pomeroy ...
Riverside Cemetery occupies a 77-acre (310,000 m 2) site between Brighton Boulevard and the east bank of the South Platte River, approximately four miles downstream from downtown Denver, Colorado. [3] The majority of Riverside Cemetery lies within Adams County, Colorado; however, the rest of the cemetery, the cemetery's original entrance and ...
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres (2.97 km 2)) is a nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after the Calverton National Cemetery and Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery [ 2 ] and is recognized as a US National Historic Landmark .
The first known public cemetery appears on 1725 maps of New Orleans at a block in the area today known as the French Quarter. This cemetery was the St. Peter Street Cemetery (French: Cimetière St-Pierre). Burials there were mostly in-ground, and this was an economic necessity for the city at the time.