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Der Stadt Friedhof, Fredericksburg – pioneer cemetery; Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston – oldest cemetery in Houston; Jackson Ranch Church Cemetery and Eli Jackson Cemetery, Hidalgo County, Texas [7] Olivewood Cemetery, Houston – the city's earliest African-American cemetery, founded around 1870; Texas State Cemetery, Austin
Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4] He later added an online forum. [5]
Location Date Culture Notes Bynum Mound and Village Site: Chickasaw County, Mississippi: 100 BCE to 100 CE Miller culture (part of the Hopewell tradition) A Middle Woodland period archaeological site located near Houston, Mississippi. The complex of six conical shaped mounds was in use during the Miller 1 and Miller 2 phases of the Miller culture.
Many post cemeteries have been given national cemetery status as late as 2020, which is considerably later than the original cemetery. For example, Vancouver Barracks post cemetery was established in 1849 and became a national cemetery in 2020—one of 11 cemeteries transferred from the Army to NCA in 2019–2020 per Exec. Order No. 13781, 2017 ...
This list of cemeteries in San Bernardino County, California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea in San Bernardino County, California.
The rural cemetery, or garden cemetery, is a style of cemetery that became popular in the United States and Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. This article is a list of rural cemeteries in the United States .
The Old City Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida was established in 1852 as Jacksonville's main burial ground. [1] After the American Civil War the cemetery later interred many Confederate veterans and veterans of the Union Army’s United States Colored Troops. Because the cemetery is over 160 years old, the Jacksonville Historic Landmarks ...
A natural cemetery, eco-cemetery, green cemetery or conservation cemetery, is a new style of cemetery as an area set aside for natural burials (with or without coffins). Natural burials are motivated by a desire to be environmentally conscious with the body rapidly decomposing and becoming part of the natural environment without incurring the ...