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The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) is a research, technology, and training center of the U.S. National Park Service located on the campus of Northwestern State University. Since its founding in 1994, NCPTT has awarded over $7 million in grants for research that fulfills its mission of advancing the use of ...
Popular gravestone carver who worked out of Portland, Bath, Brunswick, and Topsham, Maine, in the early 19th century. Brother of Bartlett Adams. Thomas Adye (mason), English, active in early-to-mid-18th-century England Monument to William Mitchell (Huntingdonshire MP) (c.1703–1745) in St. Mary's Church (Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire). [1]
The International Fund for Monuments (IFM) was an organization created by Colonel James A. Gray (1909–1994) after his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1960. Gray had conceived of a visionary project to arrest the settlement of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by freezing the soil underneath, and he formed the organization in 1965 as a vehicle for the implementation of this idea.
A landscape restoration project is underway at Aztec Ruins National Monument that will see native vegetation planted and nurtured as part of an effort to protect the park’s cultural resources.
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, commonly referred to as the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and abbreviated GLMA, is the main governing body of Freemasonry within Massachusetts, and maintains Lodges in other jurisdictions overseas, namely Panama, Chile, the People's Republic of China (meeting in Tokyo, Japan), and ...
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Captain Andrew Drake (1684–1743) sandstone gravestone from the Stelton Baptist Church in Edison, New Jersey. A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab.
The base of the monument is situated about 133 feet (41 m) above the nearest sidewalk. [4] The base of the monument has three inscriptions on its east, north, and south faces, which are as follows: [11] IN HONOR OF HENRY CLAY. / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED / BY THE CITIZENS OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY / AND BEQUEATHED TO THEIR CHILDREN.