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The predominantly African-American northern section of the cemetery is commonly referred to by local African-Americans as "God's Little Acre". The Island Cemetery was established by the city in 1836, and transferred to the private Island Cemetery Corporation in 1848. [2]
Green Jacket Shoal is a 33-acre (13 ha) shoal and ship graveyard in Providence River, between the cities of East Providence and Providence, Rhode Island, United States.It contains a large amount of debris from a century of abandoned and wrecked ships, destroyed docks, pilings, and other remnants of the area's industrial past.
On the island of St Maol Rubha or St Maree, in Loch Maree, Gairloch in the Highlands is an oak wish tree made famous by a visit in 1877 by Queen Victoria and its inclusion in her published diaries. The tree, and others surrounding it, are festooned with hammered-in coins.
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The island is the site of a graveyard once used by the Stewarts of Ballachulish, the MacDonalds of Glencoe and the Camerons of Callart. The clans shared the island and the maintenance of the graveyard, even when there was conflict between them. [3] The last burial took place in 1972, of Mrs Christina MacDonald Sharpe, a native of Glencoe. [4]
a Ship graveyard is an area where a large number of ships have been wrecked or sunk, or abandoned prior to scrapping. Pages in category "Ship graveyards" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
For around two decades, the sands and marshes of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach kept a dark secret.. A killer or killers roamed the locality, luring in escorts and sex workers and brutally murdering ...
The grave of Captain Belt sits on its own inside the entry gate to the right, having been added after the cemetery was completed. Nearby is the San Carlos museum, with photographs and relics from the conflict. On 21 May 2002, the 20th anniversary of the landings, a service of remembrance was held at the cemetery.