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An abandoned graveyard, also known as an abandoned cemetery, is a graveyard that is no longer maintained. [1] Graveyards may be abandoned for various reasons. [ 2 ] Some reasons for abandonment of cemeteries include such phenomena as financial difficulty, natural disaster, unpleasant reputation and/or accessibility.
Potter Cemetery is a privately owned, historic cemetery located in Ash Township in the U.S. state of Michigan. The cemetery was established as early as 1847 with its last known gravesite dating to 1930. By 1968, the state abandoned the cemetery, and it later became inaccessible as a result of private property surrounding the cemetery.
Doyle Street sits near three Detroit cemeteries — Mount Olivet, Forest Lawn and Sacred Heart of Saint Mary. What we know One stone is engraved with the name Mary Tabaczynski, alive from 1886 to ...
Talbott Cemetery — one of several cemeteries on the list — has some amazing gravestones, including one for David Huston (1814-1884) that's carved to look like a tall remnant of a tree that has ...
Rawsonville is an unincorporated community on the boundary of Washtenaw and Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [1] Small parts of the historic community of Rawsonville lie under Belleville Lake, which is an artificial reservoir created in 1925 when the Eastern Michigan Edison Company built the French Landing Dam and Powerhouse along the Huron River. [2]
Gravestones at Mount Moor Cemetery in West Nyack Aug. 5, 2024. Mount Moor holds sacred space for national history in Rockland A USA TODAY Network New York database found 23 historically African ...
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and graveyard in Kronborg. This list of cemeteries in Nebraska includes notable examples of currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (abandoned or removed) cemeteries, churchyards, columbaria, mausolea, and other formal burial grounds.
This list of cemeteries in Pennsylvania includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.