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  2. List of monuments to African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Name Image Honoree Location Designer or sculptor Date Comments or inscriptions References Bust of York: York (explorer) Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon: Todd McGrain

  3. List of monumental masons - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Lists of monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. 50 Famous Celebrity Gravesites Around the World - AOL

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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 ...

  6. Harriet Tubman Grave - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Monumental masonry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of national memorials of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    God's Little Acre. The Common Burial Ground was established in 1665 on land given to city of Newport by John Clarke. [2] It features what is probably the largest number of colonial era headstones in a single cemetery, including the largest number of colonial African American headstones in the United States.