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The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial-era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974. [1]
The island, along with the rest of the Abrolhos, was likely visited by sealers and guano miners through the 19th century. In 1877, survivors of the Hadda shipwreck lived on the island for five days. Crayfisherman arrived on the island sometime afterward and established several galvanised iron and asbestos shacks along with sheds for gear on ...
This is a category for people buried in two historic cemeteries: the Common Burial Ground and Island Cemetery, both in Newport, Rhode Island The main article for this category is Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery .
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Arnold Burying Ground (also known as the Governor Arnold Burying Ground) is a historic cemetery on Pelham Street just east of Spring Street in Newport, Rhode Island. It is the burial place of Benedict Arnold , Rhode Island's first governor under the Royal Charter of 1663 .
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]
Caretakers of the Olivewood Cemetery in Houston are left outraged after construction workers replaced a new fence with a concrete The post Developers rip out fence at Houston’s oldest Black ...
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.