Mississippi Territory Governor Robert Williams established Madison County on Dec. 13, 1808. What appears to be the oldest cemetery in that county—and the state of Alabama—is Sivley Cemetery in ...

Oldest Cemetery in Louisiana Purchase The American Cemetery, esteemed as the oldest cemetery in the Louisiana Purchase, ...

Discover Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, a hidden gem cemetery with stunning ocean views, historic markers, and haunting beauty.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — We are celebrating WNY by recognizing a group of volunteers who are literally getting their hands dirty to dig up the past. The Friends of Concordia have been hard at work paying ...

The old country graveyard, which rests in an unmarked wooded clearing, is filled with the names of fellow early pioneers. Many of those names are faded to the point of illegibility. Others are ...

More than a dozen headstones were stolen from Woodlawn Celestial Gardens in Compton, perhaps for the bronze and copper plaques.

TAUNTON — “Here lies the body of Elizabeth Walker, the wife of James Walker, aged 59, died in the year 1678, August ye 14.” That’s the inscription on the oldest legible gravestone in Taunton. There ...

Lancaster is one of America's oldest inland cities — and its cemeteries are some of the oldest, too. Here, carved stones from the 1700s and early 1800s mark the final resting places of early settlers, ...