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Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for several decades, paid an annual tribute to the American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday.
Significant dates. Added to NRHP. November 12, 1969. Designated VLR. September 9, 1969 [2] Hollywood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 412 South Cherry Street in the Oregon Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It was established in 1847 and designed by the landscape architect John Notman. It is 135-acres in size and overlooks ...
Catacombs are man-made underground passages primarily used for religious purposes, particularly for burial. Any chamber used as a burial place is considered a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the Roman Empire. [ 1 ][ 2 ]
Shockoe Hill Cemetery, as it is presently called, was established in 1820, with the initial burial made in 1822. It was earlier known as the "New Burying Ground" and also the "Shockoe Hill Burying Ground". This cemetery has long been recognized as the city of Richmond's first truly municipal cemetery for white persons -- that is, the first to ...
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.
6079346. Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts is a book by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr. detailing sites in Providence, Rhode Island related to H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1979 in an edition of 1,000 copies. The book grew out of a bus tour of Providence that Beckwith held as part of the World ...
Reference no. 731. Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. [1] The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s.
Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated. The first poet interred in Poets' Corner was Geoffrey Chaucer in 1400. [ 1 ] William Shakespeare was commemorated with a monument in 1740, over a century after his death.