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A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον ' sleeping place ' ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally ...
Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone; Citizens Cemetery, Flagstaff (site of mass grave of victims of 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision) City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa; Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe; Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale; Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery; Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery, Phoenix; Hardyville Pioneer Cemetery ...
A plaque at Chattanooga National Cemetery that explains the history of the National Cemetery System Gettysburg National Cemetery, Pennsylvania Golden Gate National Cemetery, California Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minnesota National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
Fayetteville, which started as a settlement of Scottish immigrants in 1739, has plenty of old graveyards, as one would expect. So you can drop in any one of those “open books” and leaf through ...
Novi Banovci, Serbia. The formal use of a grave involves several steps with associated terminology. Grave cut. The excavation that forms the grave. [2] Excavations vary from a shallow scraping to removal of topsoil to a depth of 6 feet (1.8 m) or more where a vault or burial chamber is to be constructed.
Landscaping and tree planting at Green-Wood Cemetery in the Brooklyn borough of New York City 1861 engraving showing a plan for a rural cemetery by N. B. Schubarth of Rhode Island, United States A former Horkanlahti Cemetery in Vehmersalmi (today part of Kuopio), Finland
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 ...
Death's head carved by John Homer, Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants.