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The tour bus to Chacchoben stopped so we could take photos of this cemetery. It is near Pedro Santos.
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a closed, historic cemetery located in the East End of London. The cemetery opened in 1841 and closed for burials in 1966. It is now a nature reserve, and other land has been added to the park, including "Scrapyard Meadow".
St. Louis, Missouri
Listed 7/3/2014
Reference Number: 14000378
Bellefontaine Cemetery, established in 1849 as the Rural Cemetery Association of St. Louis, is nationally significant for its landscape architecture (Criterion C) as a unique hybrid of the rural and landscape-lawn cemetery movements. Bellefontaine did not adapt either influence (rural or landscape-lawn) exclusively but instead, merged both into its overall landscape design. Decisions to pursue cutting edge landscape ideas and to limit the cemetery's recreational use, sets Bellefontaine apart from its east coast (rural cemetery) predecessors and mid-western (landscapelawn) examples. The cemetery was initially designed as a rural cemetery by its first superintendent, Almerin Hotchkiss, who came to St. Louis after working with David Bates Douglass and Zebediah Cook, Jr. at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery (established 1838; NHL, 2006). In addition to his work at Green-Wood, Hotchkiss (while working at Bellefontaine) designed what is believed to be the nation's earliest planned suburban neighborhood, Lake Forest, Illinois. Once the landscape-lawn movement began to take shape (introduced by Adolph Strauch in 1855 at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Ohio, established 1844; NHL, 1979), Bellefontaine served as an early proponent of the movement. Complementing and contributing to the cemetery's landscape architecture is Bellefontaine's exceptional collection of memorials and mausolea designed by renowned sculptors, architects and craftsmen. Elements of both the rural and landscape-lawn cemetery movements are clearly defined through the site's undulating topography, planned horticultural features, serpentine road network, man-made lakes and spatial relationships between stones, monuments and tombs. The associated period of significance, 1849 - 1940, extends from the cemetery's year of incorporation, 1849 through 1940, by which time Bellefontaine had reached its final stage of physical development.
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Noratus cemetery is an medieval cemetery in Armenia located close to lake Sevan. It is filled with lots of stone monuments of various sorts and usually have inscription. Here you see some of these as well as the rolling hills outside.
You can see other images from Armenia in my Armenia set.
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A return visit on a beautiful summer's day...
Arnos Vale Cemetery, located in Arnos Vale, Bristol, was established in 1837. Its first burial was in 1839. The cemetery followed a joint-stock model, funded by shareholders. It was laid out as an Arcadian landscape with buildings by Charles Underwood. Within a few years of its opening it became the most fashionable place to be buried in Bristol. It is listed, Grade II*, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.
During the 20th century the cemetery fell into disrepair, and local groups began campaigning for its restoration. In 1987 the owner disclosed plans to exhume the bodies and develop the site for housing. Early in the 21st century following a public campaign the site was subject to a compulsory purchase order by Bristol City Council.
In 2003 it was featured on the BBC programme 'Restoration'. The cemetery was a South West region runner-up and has since received a £4.8 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
The cemetery includes a number of listed buildings and monuments.
I was curious about the fences around graves and this is all I could find..
In some cemeteries (particularly in the western US), the fences were erected to keep coyotes away,and in some cemeteries, the gravesites were fenced to give the appearance of private property or personal space; much like you would fence the property where your house stands.
one person suggested that long ago people were burried on thier own land ,so it was to keep the farm animals off the graves...and it was a custom that they kept..
A Commonwealth War Grave on the old medieval walls.
This small cemetery is the only CWGC burial ground within the ancient walls of Ieper. The cemetery was begun in November 1914 by French troops defending the city and was used by Commonwealth troops from February 1915 until April 1918, by which time the Western Front had moved away from Ypres.
At the end of the war, the French graves were removed and concentrated in the nearby Ypres Necropole National French cemetery. Of the British and Commonwealth troops buried here, all but ten are named; in the case of five of the unidentified, the nationality could not be assertained.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield who was also responsible for the nearby Menin Gate memorial
Plot 34: Harry Frederick Humby (2 months) 1907 – Whooping cough
Walter Humby (72) 1946 – Labourer
In Loving Memory
of
FREDERICK HARRY
beloved infant son of
Walter & Amanda HUMBY
died 11th July 1907
aged 2 months.
WALTER HUMBY
died 10th July 1946.
DEATHS
HUMBY.—On July 10th, at his parents' residence, Oxford-st., Newton, Harry Frederick, dearly-beloved infant son of Walter and Amanda Humby; aged 2 months.
Taken in River Bend Cemetery, Westerly RI
Stanton Clark , son of Weeden and Amelia Clark was born Dec. 27, 1820 on the Clark homestead in Westerly, RI and died Dec. 12, 1916 at 96 years old.
He was very engaged in the granite business and operated a quarry in the town.
He first married Antoinette Sweet in Waterford, CT in 1848. After her death he married Annie Williams of Plainfield N.J.
I used a small LED tea light to iluminate the opening in the column to create the glow.
In the background there was a fellow photog taking pictures inside the cemetery closer to the tombs.
This photo was taken at the Terlingua Cemetery in October 2012.
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Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished, dedicated mostly to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad.
Wikipedia:
The memorial complex designed by Alexander Vasiliev and Yevgeniy Levinson was opened on May 9, 1960. About 420,000 civilians and 50,000 soldiers of the Leningrad Front were buried in 186 mass graves. Near the entrance an eternal flame is located. A marble plate affirms that from September 4, 1941 to January 22, 1944 107,158 air bombs were dropped on the city, 148,478 shells were fired, 16,744 men died, 33,782 were wounded and 641,803 died of starvation.
The center of the architectural composition is the bronze monument symbolizing the Mother Motherland, by sculptors V.V. Isaeva and R.К. Taurit.
By granite steps leading down from the Eternal Flame visitors enter the main 480-meter path which leads to the majestic Motherland monument. The words of poet Olga Berggolts are carved on a granite wall located behind this monument:
Here lie Leningraders
Here are citydwellers - men, women, and children
And next to them, Red Army soldiers.
They defended you, Leningrad,
The cradle of the Revolution
With all their lives.
We cannot list their noble names here,
There are so many of them under the eternal protection of granite.
But know this, those who regard these stones:
No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.
The modest grave of Eamon de Valera, a leader during the Irish War of Independence, and eventually the President of Ireland.
Mount Olivet Cemetery - Nashville, TN.
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Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Detroit, Mi.
Elmwood Cemetery opened in 1841 as the first rural cemetery in the midwest. The cemetery started on a 42 acre piece of land given to the city and now covers 83 acres. It contain many notable Michigan natives which include mayors, governors, and United States politicians that served in Congress and the White House. The cemetery is still open for new burials.
On Dec 2, 1982, Elmwood Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.