Volunteers are needed to help preserve a beautiful outdoor museum of Granville history. Volunteers will clean and straighten headstones in the Old Colony Burying Ground, located on South Main Street, ...
SAN ANTONIO – For almost anyone who has been there, it’s obvious by the rows of gleaming white marble headstones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery that it is a very unique burial ground. “The ...
Warren Stirling stood in front of his family’s gravestones on Saturday, June 29, staring down at his great-great grandfather’s marker. Frederick J. Woodbury, or Captain Fred, was one of the founders ...
During the Victorian era, it wasn’t uncommon to take a leisurely Sunday stroll through your local garden cemetery—perhaps stopping for a picnic lunch. But for the most part (with a few exceptions, ...
ALTADENA – Altadena’s “Good Cemeterians” will host a special session Saturday, June 29, to celebrate cleaning their 1,000th headstone. The public event, held at Mountain View Cemetery, will consist of ...
There are few signs of wildfire remaining on the front of more than one thousand headstones at the historic Fort Smith National Cemetery. In less than five minutes February 9, two acres of the ...
The 1866 marble monument in Granville’s Old Colony Burying Ground, shown in "before-and-after” shots, was cleaned in 2022 by volunteer Tasia Savage. It marks the grave of Benjamin Linnell, a member of ...